Significant Events
- Jul 5 Frederick Douglass, fugitive slave, delivers his 'What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?' speech to the Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society in Rochester, condemns the celebration as hypocritical sham
World Leaders in 1852
Edward Smith-Stanley
British Prime Minister
Millard Fillmore
13th US President
Famous People in 1852
Charles Dickens
Novelist
Giuseppe Verdi
Composer
Calamity Jane
Emil Fischer
H. H. Asquith
Henri Becquerel
Henri Moissan
Hipólito YrigoyenFamous Weddings
- Dec 30 Future US President Rutherford B. Hayes (30) weds teetotaler and abolitionist Lucy Webb (21)
Ada Lovelace
Arthur Wellesley
Daniel Webster
Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen
Henry Clay
Louis Braille