* 1652 – At the Cape of Good Hope, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp that eventually becomes Cape Town.

* 1721 – Michel Chamillart, French statesman ( b. 1652 )

* 1652 – Pope Clement XII ( d. 1740 )

Camille d ' Hostun, duc de Tallard | Marshal Tallard ( 1652 – 1728 ).

* Philip Michael Ellis ( 1652 – 1726 )

Other notable 17th-century outbreaks were the Italian Plague ( 1629 – 1631 ); the Great Plague of Seville ( 1647 – 1652 ); the Great Plague of London ( 1665 – 1666 ); and the Great Plague of Vienna ( 1679 ).

The Trekboers, as they were originally known, were mainly of Dutch origin and included Calvinists, such as Flemish and Frisian Calvinists, as well as French Huguenot and German and British protestants who first arrived in the Cape of Good Hope during the period of its administration ( 1652 – 1795 ) by the Dutch East India Company ( Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie or VOC ).

John Cotton ( 1585 – 1652 )

* 1652 – Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician ( d. 1723 )

Gregorio Allegri ( 1582 – 17 February 1652 ) was an Italian composer of the Roman School and brother of Domenico Allegri ; he was also a priest and a singer.

This post later became a fully-fledged colony, the Cape Colony ( 1652 – 1806 ).

* 1652 – Tarhoncu Ahmet Paşa is appointed grand vezir of the Ottoman Empire.

* 1573 – Inigo Jones, English architect, designed the Queen's House ( d. 1652 )

Count Johann von Werth ( 1591 – September 12, 1652 ), also Jan von Werth or in French Jean de Werth, was a German general of cavalry in the Thirty Years ' War.

John Radcliffe ( 1652 – 1714 ) was an English physician.

* Hone, Campbell R. ( 1950 ) The Life of Dr. John Radcliffe, 1652 – 1714, Benefactor of the University of Oxford.

* 1597 – Jean-Charles de la Faille, Flemish mathematician ( d. 1652 )

* 1652 – Rhode Island passes the first law in English-speaking North America making slavery illegal.

This gave rise to a charge of heresy, of which he was acquitted at the national synod held at Alençon in 1637, and presided over by Benjamin Basnage ( 1580 – 1652 ).

* 1585 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer ( d. 1652 )

* 1719 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician ( b. 1652 )

* 1652 – Antonio Coello, Spanish writer ( b. 1611 )

* April 14 – Michel Chamillart, French statesman ( b. 1652 )

* November 8 – Michel Rolle, French mathematician ( b. 1652 )

Michel Rolle ( April 21, 1652 – November 8, 1719 ) was a French mathematician.

Michel Chamillart or Chamillard ( 2 January 1652 – 14 April 1721 ) was a French statesman, a minister of King Louis XIV of France.

Ambert was the birthpace of Michel Rolle ( 1652 – 1719 ), mathematician, Emmanuel Chabrier ( 1841 – 1894 ), composer and Henri Pourrat ( 1887-1959 ), writer who is known to wrote novel Gaspard des Motagnes.

* November 8-Michel Rolle, mathematician ( born 1652 )

This French text is a translation of Hayashi Gahō's seven-volume Imperial chronology, first circulated in Kyoto in 1652 and reprinted in the early 19th century as a standard reference work for use by Tokugawa scholar-bureaucrats.

* March 13 – Georges de La Tour, French painter ( d. 1652 )

The city alternated years of crisis, featuring economic exploitation, the decrease of the maritime trade, made unsafe by the daily raids of Saracens pirates, political corruption of its rulers, the sacking of Sassari in 1527 by the French, and two plagues in 1528 and 1652, with periods of cultural and economic prosperity.

The Dunkirkers briefly lost their home port when the city was conquered by the French in 1646 but Spanish forces recaptured the city in 1652.

After 1652, they were supplemented by Dutch prisoners, as a result of sea battles between Admiral Blake and Lieutenant-Admiral Tromp during the First Anglo-Dutch War, and probably by a colony of French workers stationed near Thorney Abbey.

* Claude-Guy Hallé ( 1652 – 1736 ), French painter

Heidelberg Castle and the Hortus Palatinus commissioned by Frederick, and designed by English gardener Inigo Jones ( 1573 – 1652 ) and French engineer Salomon de Caus ( 1576 – 1626 ).

After the Catalonian Revolt France had controlled Catalonia from January 1641, when a combined Catalan and French force defeated the Spanish army at Montjuich, until 1652.

Camille d ' Hostun de la Baume, duc de Tallard ( 14 February 1652 – 20 March 1728 ) was a French noble, diplomat and military commander, who became Marshal of France.

* Georges de la Tour ( French, 1593 – 1652 ) French caravaggesque painter

He arranged for the publication of Hobbes's De Cive in Amsterdam in 1647, published a French translation in 1649, published a French translation of Hobbes ' De Corpore Politico, or the Elements of Law in 1652, and helped secure a publisher for Hobbes's own Latin translation of Leviathan in 1668.

He was against military actions against some of the colony's foreign neighbors, opposing official intervention in a French Acadian dispute in the 1640s, and also spoke against attacking the New Netherlands during the First Anglo-Dutch War ( 1652 – 1654 ).

Georges de La Tour ( March 13, 1593 – January 30, 1652 ) was a French Baroque painter, who spent most of his working life in the Duchy of Lorraine, which was temporarily absorbed into France between 1641 and 1648.

French troops soon arrived in Catalonia, but when a renewed civil war ( the Fronde ) broke out at home, their domestically distracted forces were driven out in 1652 by Catalan and Spanish Habsburg forces.