Events from the year 1852 in
France.
Incumbents
*
Monarch –
Napoleon III (from December 2, monarchy established)
Events
*14 January -
French Constitution of 1852 enacted by
Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte
Napoleon III (Charles Louis Napoléon Bonaparte; 20 April 18089 January 1873) was the first President of France (as Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte) from 1848 to 1852 and the last monarch of France as Emperor of the French from 1852 to 1870. A nephew ...
(Napoleon III).
*29 February -
Legislative Election held.
*14 March -
Legislative Election held.
*24 September - Engineer
Henri Giffard makes the first
airship trip from
Paris to
Trappes.
*21 November - New French Empire confirmed by referendum.
*2 December -
Napoleon III becomes
Emperor of the French.
Births
*26 January -
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, explorer (died
1905
As the second year of the massive Russo-Japanese War begins, more than 100,000 die in the largest world battles of that era, and the war chaos leads to the 1905 Russian Revolution against Nicholas II of Russia (Shostakovich's 11th Symphony i ...
)
*1 March -
Théophile Delcassé, statesman (died
1923
Events
January–February
* January 9 – Lithuania begins the Klaipėda Revolt to annex the Klaipėda Region (Memel Territory).
* January 11 – Despite strong British protests, troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area, t ...
)
*28 September -
Henri Moissan, chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died
1907
Events
January
* January 14 – 1907 Kingston earthquake: A 6.5 Mw earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica, kills between 800 and 1,000.
February
* February 11 – The French warship ''Jean Bart'' sinks off the coast of Morocco. ...
)
*22 November -
Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, diplomat and politician, recipient of the
Nobel Peace Prize (died
1924
Events
January
* January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after.
* January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China hol ...
)
*15 December -
Henri Becquerel, physicist,
Nobel Prize laureate (died
1908
Events
January
* January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica.
* January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 46 ...
)
Deaths
*6 January -
Louis Braille, teacher, inventor of
braille (born
1809
Events
January–March
* January 5 – The Treaty of the Dardanelles, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Ottoman Empire, is concluded.
* January 10 – Peninsular War – French Marshal Jean ...
)
*26 February -
Hélène Jégado
H̩l̬ne J̩gado (1803 Р26 February 1852) was a French domestic servant and serial killer. She is believed to have murdered as many as 36 people with arsenic over a period of 18 years. After an initial period of activity, between 1833 and ...
, domestic servant and
serial killer, executed (born
1803
Events
* January 1 – The first edition of Alexandre Balthazar Laurent Grimod de La Reynière's ''Almanach des gourmands'', the first guide to restaurant cooking, is published in Paris.
* January 5 – William Symington demonstrates his ...
)
*17 April -
Étienne Maurice Gérard, general and statesman (born
1773
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The hymn that becomes known as ''Amazing Grace'', at this time titled "1 Chronicles 17:16–17", is first used to accompany a sermon led by curate John Newton in the town of Olney, Bucking ...
)
*28 May -
Eugène Burnouf,
orientalist (born
1801
Events
January–March
* January 1
** The legislative union of Great Britain and Ireland is completed under the Act of Union 1800, bringing about the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the abolition of the Parliament of I ...
)
*22 July -
Auguste de Marmont, general, nobleman and marshal (born
1774
Events
January–March
* January 21 – Mustafa III, List of Ottoman Sultans, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, dies and is succeeded by his brother Abdul Hamid I.
* January 27
** An angry crowd in Boston, Massachusetts seizes, tars, and f ...
)
*26 July -
Jean-Jacques Feuchère, sculptor (born
1807
Events
January–March
* January 7 – The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland issues an Order in Council prohibiting British ships from trading with France or its allies.
* January 20 – The Sierra Leone Company, faced with b ...
)
Full date unknown
*
Jacques Bernard Hombron
Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798–1852) was a French naval surgeon and naturalist.
Hombron served on the French voyage of the ''Astrolabe'' and ''Zélée'' between 1837 and 1840 to investigate the perimeter of Antarctica. He described a number of p ...
,
naval surgeon and
naturalist (born
1798
Events
January–June
* January – Eli Whitney contracts with the U.S. federal government for 10,000 muskets, which he produces with interchangeable parts.
* January 4 – Constantine Hangerli enters Bucharest, as Prince of Wa ...
)
References
{{Year in Europe, 1852
1850s in France