In the year 1652, Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck founds Cape Town in South Africa (Apr 6), Rhode Island passes the first law in North America, making slavery illegal (May 18), George Fox preaches to a large crowd on Firbank Fell in England, leading to the establishment of the Religious Society of Friends, a.k.a. Quakers (Jun 13), disastrous fire destroys almost everything in Oulu, Finland (Oct 2), John Milton loses the last of his eyesight, the lymphatic system is first described by both Olaus Rudbeck in Sweden and Thomas Bartholin in Denmark - and all these fine people were born:
1652-0107 Pavao Ritter Vitezović* polymath/historian/political theorist - Senj, Croatian Military Frontier, Habsburg Monarchy (1713/61)
1652-0108 Wilhelm Homberg* German natural philosopher - Batavia, Dutch East Indies (1715/63)
1652-0113 Henry Booth* politician - England (1694/41)
1652-0117 Claude-Guy Hallé* painter - Paris, Kingdom of France (1736/84)
1652-0213 Anton Domenico Gabbiani* Italian painter - Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1726/74)
1652-0214 Camille d’Hostun* nobleman/ military commander/Marshal of France - Lyon, Kingdom of France (1728/76)
1652-0301 Louis de Sabran* French-British Jesuit priest/active in England - Paris, Kingdom of France (1732/79)
1652-0312 Johann Heinrich Ernesti* Saxon philosopher/theologian/poet - Königsfeld, Holy Roman Empire (1729/77)
1652-0409 Jean Le Fèvre* astronomer/ physicist - Lisieux, Kingdom of France (1706/54)
1652-0421 Michel Rolle* mathematician - Ambert, Basse-Auvergne, France (1719/67)
1652-0425 Giovanni Battista Foggini* sculptor - Florence, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (1725/72)
1652-05xx Jane Barker* writer/poet/dramatist - Blatherwycke, Northamptonhire, England (1732/c.80)
1652-0501 John King* clergyman/Rector of Chelsea - St Columb Major, Cornwall, England (1732/80)
1652-0527 Elizabeth_Charlotte* ak.a. Madame Palatine/French princess/ memoirist/great-grandmother of Marie Antoinette - Heidelberg Castle, Holy Roman Empire (1722/70)
1652-0601 Juan Ferreras* priest/one of the founders of the Royal Spanish Academy - La Bañeza, Spain (1735/83)
1652-0623 Jan Brokoff* sculptor/carver of Carpathian German origin - Spišská Sobota, Holy Roman Empire (1718/66)
1652-0815 John Grubb* early settler in Pennsylvania/politician/to America at age 25 - Stoke Climsland, Cornwall, England (1708/55)
1652-0815 John Wise* clergyman/ politician/activist - Roxbury, Massachusetts, British America (1725/72)
1652-0904 Tokugawa Tsunanari* 徳川 綱誠 as daimyō of Owari Domain during early-Edo period Japan - Japan (1699/46)
1652-0908 Luisa Roldán* the first woman sculptor documented in Spain - Sevilla, Spanish Empire (1706/53)
1652-0910 Jan Sladký Kozina* Czech revolutionary leader - Újezd (1695/43)
1652-1009 Simon Tolpo* bishop/professor of theology and metaphysics - Turku, Sweden-Finland (1711/58)
1652-1029 Jan Wyck* military painter - Haarlem, Dutch Republic (1702/49)
1652-1101 William Lowndes* politician/said: “Take care of the pence, and the pounds will take care of themselves” - Winslow, Buckinghamshire, England (1724/71)
1652-1110 Johann Ernst Glück* German theologian/translator active in Livonia - Wettin, Saxony (1705/52)
1652-1202 Johan Schmedeman* civil servant/collecor of doduments - Viipuri, Sweden-Finland (1713/60)
1652-1209 Augustus Quirinus Rivinus* German physician/botanist - Leipzig (1723/71)
1652-1225 Archibald Pitcairne* physician/his extensive library was sold to Peter the Great of Russia - Edinburgh, Scotland (1713/60)
Updated 2.10.2021
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