* 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.

* 1852 – Harvard University wins the first Boat Race between Yale University and Harvard.

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

In 1852, James Alexander Holden emigrated to South Australia from Walsall, England and in 1856 established J. A.

In 1852, in Amsterdam under the personal supervision of Victoria's consort, Prince Albert, and the technical direction of James Tennant, the diamond was cut from 186 1 / 16 carats ( 37. 21 g ) to its current 105. 602 carats ( 21. 61 g ) to increase its brilliance.

* January 11 – James Milton Carroll, Baptist pastor, historian, and author ( b. 1852 )

As Democrats convened in Baltimore in June 1852, four major candidates vied for the nomination: Lewis Cass of Michigan, the nominee in 1848, who had the backing of northerners in support of the Compromise of 1850 ; James Buchanan of Pennsylvania, popular in the South as well as in his home state ; Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois, candidate of the expansionists and the railroad interests ; and William L. Marcy of New York, whose strength was centered in his home state.

* James Lyle Mackay, later first Earl of Inchcape, ( 1852 – 1932 ), Chairman of the P & O Line and the British India Company, born and educated in Arbroath

In 1852 city officials renamed Cynthian to Dallas after Vice President George M. Dallas, vice president to James Polk.

The settlement was originally a 500-acre tract purchased by James William Bryant in 1852 and was known as Mt.

With James Cochran Porter & Robert Ross Founding in 1852 Monmouth Academy.

The effect is named for James Prescott Joule and William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin who discovered it in 1852 following earlier work by Joule on Joule expansion, in which a gas undergoes free expansion in a vacuum.

The land covered by these grants, parts of Eaton and Albany, was incorporated in 1852 as " Madison ," in honor of President James Madison, who was born 100 years earlier.

In 1852, the Chapman brothers, James, Irving and George, built the first of the many tanneries in the township.

In 1852 John James and Gustav Theissen, who helped settle Sisterdale, platted the townsite, renamed it in honor of German author Karl Ludwig Börne, with the Anglicized spelling of Boerne.

Rochester was founded in 1852 by Samuel James.

Further works include editions with notes of Paley's Moral Philosophy ( 1852 ); Education as a Science ( 1879 ); Dissertations on leading philosophical topics ( 1903, mainly reprints of papers in Mind ); he collaborated with JS Mill and Grote in editing James Mill's Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind ( 1869 ), and assisted in editing Grote's Aristotle and Minor Works ; he also wrote a memoir prefixed to G Croom Robertson's Philosophical Remains ( 1894 ).

The flood crested at above datum at the James Avenue pumping station in Winnipeg making it the third highest flood at Winnipeg in recorded history only being surpassed by the floods of 1852, and 1826.

* James Cochran Porter — founder of Monmouth Academy, 1852

James Pradier, also known as Jean-Jacques Pradier ( 1790 – June 4, 1852 ) was a Swiss-born French sculptor best known for his work in the neoclassical style.

An exhibition, Statues de chair: sculptures de James Pradier ( 1790 – 1852 ) at Geneva's Musée d ' Art et d ' Histoire ( October 1985 – February 1986 ) and Paris, Musée du Luxembourg, ( February – May 1986 ) roused some interest in Pradier's career and aesthetic.

In 1852, gun makers James Warner and Massachusetts Arms infringed on the patent.

* Fitzroy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan 1852 – 1855

In late 1852, he had a falling-out with James Lesslie after Lesslie refused to publish an intemperate letter on crown lands policy in Lesslie's newspaper, the Toronto Examiner.

In the U. S., physician James W. Redfield published his Comparative Physiognomy in 1852, illustrating with 330 engravings the " Resemblances between Men and Animals.

In February 1852, The Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli was published, edited by Emerson, James Freeman Clarke, and William Henry Channing, though much of the work was censored or reworded.

* James Banks Stanhope ( 1821 – 1904 ), Member of Parliament for North Lincolnshire, 1852 – 1868