* Ada Lovelace ( 1815 – 1852 ), the first computer programmer

* 1777 – Henry Clay, American statesman ( d. 1852 )

* 1852 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician ( d. 1939 )

Mackenzie married Helen Neil ( 1826 – 1852 ) in 1845 and with her had three children, with only one girl surviving infancy.

Gaudi, 1852 – 1926, Antoni Gaudi i Cornet-A Life Devoted to Architecture.

* 1823 – Gotthold Eisenstein, German mathematician ( d. 1852 )

* 1852 – Tlingit Indians destroy Fort Selkirk, Yukon Territory.

* 1783 – William Tierney Clark, English engineer, designed the Hammersmith Bridge ( d. 1852 )

* 1852 – Arnold Toynbee, English economist and historian ( d. 1883 )

* 1852 – Clímaco Calderón, Colombian lawyer and politician, 15th President of Colombia ( d. 1913 )

* 1852 – At a general conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young explains the Adam – God doctrine, an important part of the theology of Mormon fundamentalism.

* 1852 – Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1911 )

* 1852 – Cap Anson, American baseball player ( d. 1922 )

* Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington ( 1769 – 1852 ), Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman

* 1778 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, Prussian educator and nationalist ( d. 1852 )

* Calamity Jane Martha Jane Canary ( May 1, 1852 – August 1, 1903 ), better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman, and professional scout best known for her claim of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok.

Emil Sioli ( 1852 – 1922 ) was the dean of the asylum.

Later in the century, Charles Villiers Stanford ( 1852 – 1924 ) used symphonic techniques to produce a more concise and unified structure.

* 1852 – Ivan Nabokov, Russian general ( b. 1787 )

* 1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet ( b. 1783 )

* Platine War ( 1851 – 1852 ): The Brazilian Empire and its allies went to war against the dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas of the Argentine Confederation.

The Earl of Derby, Prime Minister 1852, 1858 – 59, 1866 – 68

Inter-collegiate sports in the US began in 1852 when crews from Harvard and Yale met in a challenge race in the sport of rowing.

In July 1848 Alger passed the Harvard entrance examinations, and was admitted to the class of 1852.

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Center Harbor witnessed the first intercollegiate sporting event in the United States, as Harvard defeated Yale by two lengths in the first Harvard-Yale Regatta on August 3, 1852.

In 1852, thanks largely to the influence of Ralph Waldo Emerson, his religious and political views underwent a radical change, and he entered the Harvard University school of divinity, where he graduated in 1854.

He was awarded the honorary Doctor of Laws degree by Harvard in 1834, received the same honor from Amherst in 1845, and again from the University of Alabama in 1852.

After graduating from Harvard College in 1852 and Harvard Law School in 1854, he was admitted first to the Massachusetts ( 1855 ) and then ( 1856 ) to the New York bar, and entered the law office of Scudder & Carter in New York City.

In 1846 he returned to Harvard as a senior ( telling the President he intended to correct his father's error in breaking the family tradition ), completed a second BA in 1847, then two or three years later entered the Divinity School and graduated from there in 1852.

But expansion proceeded apace throughout the 1850s at a rate of several chapters per year: Epsilon was chartered at Brown University and Rho ( later re-chartered as Rho Epsilon ) at Harvard University in 1852 ; Psi ( later re-chartered as Psi Epsilon ) at Dartmouth College in 1853 ; Kappa at Tufts University in 1855 ; Theta at Union College in 1856 ; Tau at Lafayette College in 1857 ; Xi at University of Michigan in 1858.

Emerson was founded in the District of Columbia in 1852 by Charles Bedford Young, Ph. D., as a school to prepare Washington area boys for entrance to Harvard.

Harvard established the Lawrence Scientific School in 1846 and Dartmouth began the Chandler Scientific School in 1852.

These boat clubs served primarily a social purpose, until Yale's 1852 issuance of a challenge to Harvard " to test the superiority of the oarsmen of the two colleges ".

In 1852, Home was a guest at the house of Rufus Elmer in Springfield, Massachusetts, giving séances six or seven times a day, which were visited by crowds of people, including a Harvard professor, David Wells, and the poet and editor of the New York Evening Post, William Cullen Bryant.

In 1852 he graduated at Harvard, and became computer to the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac.

The creation of these organizations set the stage for the first intercollegiate sporting event in the U. S. This event took place in 1852, when the rowing team from Yale competed against the rowing team from Harvard at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire.

Born at Haverhill, Massachusetts, he graduated at Harvard College in 1852, and at the Harvard Law School in 1856, in which year he was admitted to the bar of Suffolk County and began to practice in Boston.

When the University of Heidelberg hired Robert Bunsen in 1852, the authorities promised to build him a new laboratory building.

In 1852 John Hay went to the college at Springfield, and in 1855 was sent to Brown University, where he joined Theta Delta Chi.

* 1852 – The University of Sydney, Australia's oldest university, is inaugurated in Sydney.

In 1852 he was admitted to Cambridge University, earning the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in 1857, then Master of Arts in 1860 from Clare College, Cambridge.

Two years later, the University was inaugurated on 11 October 1852 in the Big Schoolroom of what is now Sydney Grammar School.

Alice was published in 1865, three years after the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and the Reverend Robinson Duckworth rowed in a boat, on 4 July 1862, up the Isis with the three young daughters of Henry Liddell ( the Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University and Dean of Christ Church ): Lorina Charlotte Liddell ( aged 13, born 1849 ) (" Prima " in the book's prefatory verse ); Alice Pleasance Liddell ( aged 10, born 1852 ) (" Secunda " in the prefatory verse ); Edith Mary Liddell ( aged 8, born 1853 ) (" Tertia " in the prefatory verse ).

St. Mary's University, founded in 1852 by Marianist brothers and priests, is the first institution of higher learning in San Antonio and the oldest Catholic university in Texas and the American Southwest.

He was educated at University College School ( then still in Euston ) between 1850 and 1852, excelling academically and gaining prizes in French and mathematics.

* McGill University ; founded as the Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning by a Royal Charter issued in 1821 by King George IV ; reconstituted by a Royal Charter issued in 1852 by Queen Victoria

* The University of Trinity College ( later became a college federated with the University of Toronto ); given university status by a Royal Charter issued by Queen Victoria in 1852

He was educated at King's School, Rochester ; King's College London ; and University College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate prize for poetry in 1852.

The seeds of the modern Antioch University were sown in the birth of an independent, non-sectarian college founded in 1852 and then created in 1964 with the founding of the Putney School of Education in New England, the first of its present campuses.

In 1852, Barnard was offered the newly-created position of President of the University of Michigan, but he declined.

* Hamilton, Discussions on Philosophy, Literature, Education, and University Reform ( London, 1852 )

In 1852 Penn Law was the first law school in the nation to publish a law journal still in existence, then called The American Law Register, which was later renamed to the University of Pennsylvania Law Review, one of the most-cited law journals in the world.

Among Whewell's other works — too numerous to mention — were popular writings such as the third Bridgewater Treatise Astronomy and General Physics considered with reference to Natural Theology ( 1833 ), and the essay, Of the Plurality of Worlds ( 1853 ), in which he argued against the probability of life on other planets, and also the Platonic Dialogues for English Readers ( 1850 – 1861 ), the Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy in England ( 1852 ), the essay, Of a Liberal Education in General, with particular reference to the Leading Studies of the University of Cambridge ( 1845 ), the important edition and abridged translation of Hugo Grotius, De jure belli ac pacis ( 1853 ), and the edition of the Mathematical Works of Isaac Barrow ( 1860 ).

In his presidential address to the British Association in 1871, Lord Kelvin stated his belief that the application of the prismatic analysis of light to solar and stellar chemistry had never been suggested directly or indirectly by anyone else when Stokes taught it to him at Cambridge University some time prior to the summer of 1852, and he set forth the conclusions, theoretical and practical, which he learnt from Stokes at that time, and which he afterwards gave regularly in his public lectures at Glasgow. Kirchhoff These statements, containing as they do the physical basis on which spectroscopy rests, and the way in which it is applicable to the identification of substances existing in the sun and stars, make it appear that Stokes anticipated Kirchhoff by at least seven or eight years.

* Andrew Lambert, " Garrett, George William Littler ( 1852 – 1902 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 2 Dec 2006

In 1852 he was appointed professor of English literature at University College, London, in succession to A H Clough, and from 1858 to 1865 he edited the newly established Macmillan's Magazine.

In 1842, John Strachan founded the Diocesan Theological Institute in Cobourg, an Anglican seminary that became integrated into the University of Trinity College in Toronto in 1852.

In 1852 he placed a bill before the state legislature proposing the establishment of a second university for Victoria, following the foundation of the University of Sydney in 1850.