* 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 response the United States Navy launched the Johanna Expedition in February 1852 to gain the release of Moores and extract compensation.

King in turn yielded the office back to Atchison in December 1852, since King had been elected Vice President of the United States.

Lord Aberdeen was a distinguished diplomat and statesman and served as Foreign Secretary from 1828 to 1830 and from 1841 to 1846 and as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 to 1855.

George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen ( 28 January 1784 – 14 December 1860 ), styled Lord Haddo from 1791 to 1801, was a British politician and landowner, successively a Tory, Conservative and Peelite, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1852 until 1855.

* 1852 – Congress establishes the United States ' 2nd mint in San Francisco, California.

With the creation of the United States Lighthouse Board in 1852, all U. S. lighthouses received Fresnel lenses by 1860.

* 1852 – Charles W. Fairbanks, American politician, 26th United States Vice President ( d. 1918 )

She toured the United States in 1852 – 53, appearing there with Camilla Urso.

* 1794 – Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American politician and 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior ( d. 1852 )

The Harvard-Yale Regatta is the oldest intercollegiate sporting event in the United States, having been contested every year since 1852 ( excepting interruptions for wars ).

* 1852 – H. H. Asquith, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1928 )

On 17 January 1852, the United Kingdom signed the Sand River Convention treaty with 5, 000 or so of the Boer families ( about 40, 000 white people ), recognising their independence in the region to the north of the Vaal River, or the Transvaal.

Jemmy Dean and John Wisden formed a rival team, the United All-England Eleven, in 1852.

These two parties have won every United States presidential election since 1852 and have controlled the United States Congress since at least 1856.

* February 15 – Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( b. 1852 )

* May 1 – Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British general and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom ( d. 1852 )

The United States presidential election of 1852 bore important similarities to the election of 1844.

The first time this form of injunction was used since 1852 in the United Kingdom was in 2005 when lawyers acting for JK Rowling and her publishers obtained an interim order against an unidentified person who had offered to sell chapters of a stolen copy of an unpublished Harry Potter novel to the media ".

The hospital was founded by the United States Congress in 1852, largely as the result of the efforts of Dorothea Dix, a pioneering advocate for people living with mental illnesses.

Grey implemented the ordinance with such deliberation that neither Council met before advice was received that the United Kingdom Parliament had passed the New Zealand Constitution Act 1852.

In the United Kingdom, Charles Frederick Field set up an enquiry office upon his retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1852.

He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1848 and graduated 11th in the Class of 1852.

Or, the United Provinces of Australia in 1850 and Freedom and Independence for the Golden Lands of Australia in 1852.