1652 CE

The Battle of the Faubourg St Antoine is fought east of Paris between French Parliamentarians (led by Louis, Grand Condé) against the army of King Louis XIV, commanded by the Viscount of Turenne, with neither side prevailing. The Guo Huaiyi Rebellion, a peasant revolt on the island of Taiwan against colonial rule in Dutch Formosa, is suppressed after four days. First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Kentish Knock fought in the North Sea about 30 km from the mouth of the river Thames; the Dutch are forced to withdraw.

In the 1650s, the 17th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

February 4 – At Edinburgh, the parliamentary commissioners of the Commonwealth of England proclaim the Tender of Union to be in force in Scotland, annexing the Scottish nation with the concession that Scotland would have 30 representatives in the parliament of the English Commonwealth.source
May 18 – Rhode Island passes the first law in North America making slavery illegal.source
August 12 – the Parliament of England passes the Act for the Settlement of Ireland.Ireland source

Conflict & Security

January 8 – Michiel de Ruyter marries the widow Anna van Gelder and plans retirement, but months later becomes a vice-commodore in the First Anglo-Dutch War.source
May 12 – Siege of Galway: Thomas Preston, the military governor of Galway, surrenders the city to English Parliamentarians commanded by Charles Coote. Galway is the last city held by Irish Catholic forces.Ireland source
May 19 (May 29, New Style) – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Dover – The opening battle is fought off Dover between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne; the result is inconclusive.source
19 May – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Dover fought inconclusively off Dover between Lt.-Admiral Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp's 42 Dutch ships and 21 English ships divided into two squadrons, one commanded by Robert Blake and the other by Nehemiah Bourne.England source
May – the largest Irish guerrilla forces under John Fitzpatrick (in Leinster), Edmund O'Dwyer (in Munster) and Edmund Daly (in Connacht) surrender, under terms signed at Kilkenny, allowing Irish troops to go abroad to serve in foreign armies not at war with the Commonwealth of England.Ireland source
July 2 – The Battle of the Faubourg St Antoine is fought east of Paris between French Parliamentarians (led by Louis, Grand Condé) against the army of King Louis XIV, commanded by the Viscount of Turenne, with neither side prevailing.source
July 4 – A mob kills 150 people, including judges, in the massacre at the Hôtel de Ville, Paris.source
July 10 – The First Anglo-Dutch War begins formally as the English Commonwealth declares war against the Dutch Republic.source
August 26 – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Plymouth – A fleet from the Commonwealth of England attacks an outward-bound convoy of the Dutch Republic, escorted by 23 men-of-war and six fire ships, commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter; the Dutch escape.source
26 August – First Anglo-Dutch War: An English fleet attacks an outward-bound Dutch convoy of the escorted by 23 men-of-war and six fire ships commanded by Vice-Commodore Michiel de Ruyter at the Battle of Plymouth; the Dutch escape.England source
6 September – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of Elba, a Dutch naval victory.England source
September 11 – The Guo Huaiyi Rebellion, a peasant revolt on the island of Taiwan against colonial rule in Dutch Formosa, is suppressed after four days.source
16 September – Army of Flanders recaptures Dunkirk, occupied by the French in 1646Belgium source
October 8 – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Kentish Knock – In a battle fought near the shoal called the Kentish Knock in the North Sea, about 30 km from the mouth of the River Thames, the Dutch are forced to withdraw.source
8 October – First Anglo-Dutch War: Battle of the Kentish Knock fought in the North Sea about 30 km from the mouth of the river Thames; the Dutch are forced to withdraw.England source
November 30 – The Netherlands takes control of the English Channel after the Battle of Dungeness ends in a Dutch victory over the English Royal Navy.source
30 November – First Anglo-Dutch War: English under Blake defeated by Dutch under Tromp at the Battle of Dungeness.England source
December 10 – First Anglo-Dutch War: Defeat at the Battle of Dungeness causes the Commonwealth of England to reform its navy.source

Exploration & Expansion

April 6 – Dutch sailor Jan van Riebeeck establishes a resupply camp for the Dutch East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope in modern-day South Africa, thus founding Cape Town.source
July 5 – The 1652 Articles of Peace and Friendship are signed between the Province of Maryland and the Conestoga Indians, ceding most of the land around the Chesapeake Bay to the English colonists.source
Jacob Jordaens, The Holy Family in a BoatBelgium source
Royal Navy Dockyard established at Harwich.England source
Pierre Bourdelot arrives in SwedenSweden source

Religion & Belief

10 January – Proclamation in Liège banishing brigands, vagabonds and beggars from the territoryBelgium source
February 12 – Oliver Cromwell, England's Lord Protector, announces that his Council of Scotland will regulate church affairs as part of the Terms of Incorporation of Scotland into England, and eliminates Presbyterianism as Scotland's state religion.source
17 April – Brussels Council of Finances relaxes restrictions on the importation of English cloth, but limiting imports to Ostend.Belgium source
14 July – Jacobus de la Torre consecrates the new Capuchin church in Brussels, designed by Fr Charles of Brussels.Belgium source
Katharina Pepijn, Portrait of Johannes Chrysostomus vander Sterre, Abbot of St. Michael's Abbey, AntwerpBelgium source
Erik Brockenhuus of Lerbæk Manor presents a chalice created by Claus Christensen (Odense) to Hover Church.Denmark source

Economy & Finance

20 February – Brussels Privy Council issues a general regulation on coinage, listing the coins to be accepted as legal tender.Belgium source

Technology & Infrastructure

10 December – Decree in Liège ordering owners of mills, forges and furnaces along the river Ourthe to remove all obstacles to navigation on the river.Belgium source
Probable date – second coffeehouse in England opened, in London, by Pasqua Rosée.England source
Building of the Red Fort at Delhi.India source

Science & Discovery

March 29 (April 8 New Style) – Total solar eclipse of April 8, 1652 ("Black Monday").source
House in Diest beguinage dated 1652Belgium source

Crime & Justice

10 April – Prudence Lee becomes the last woman in England burned alive at the stake for mariticide, at Smithfield, London (subsequent recipients of the sentence being in practice strangled before burning).England source

Disasters & Accidents

July 17 – The "Great Fire of Glasgow" destroys one-third of the Scottish city.source
October 2 – The Great Fire of Oulu destroys almost all of the houses of the town’s bourgeoisie, the provision warehouses and the drawbridge of Oulu Castle, in the town of Oulu, Finland.source

Culture & Society

June 13 – George Fox preaches to a large crowd on Firbank Fell in England, leading to the establishment of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).source
13 June – George Fox preaches to a large crowd on Firbank Fell in Westmorland, leading to the establishment of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).England source
Theodoor van Thulden, Harmony and MarriageBelgium source
David Teniers the Younger, Flemish KermessBelgium source
Jan van den Hecke, Still Life of Parrot Tulips, Roses, Carnations, Morning Glory and Other Flowers in a Silver Dish on a Stone PedestalBelgium source
Lorentz Jørgensen completes the altarpiece in St. Nicholas' Church in Køge.Denmark source
Gerard Boate's Natural History of Ireland is published posthumously.Ireland source
Magnus Gabriel De la Gardie becomes Lord High TreasurerSweden source

Births

January 2 – Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London (died 1733)source
2 January – Sir Gilbert Heathcote, 1st Baronet, Lord Mayor of London (died 1733)England source
January 7 – Pavao Ritter Vitezović, Croatian historian (died 1713)source
January 13 – Henry Booth, 1st Earl of Warrington, English politician (died 1694)source
14 February – Camille d'Hostun, duc de Tallard, nobleman, diplomat and military officer (died 1728)France source
March 3 – Thomas Otway, English dramatist (died 1685)source
March 28 – Samuel Sewall, English-born Massachusetts judge (died 1730)source
April 7 – Pope Clement XII (died 1740)source
April 25 – Boris Sheremetev, Russian noble (died 1719)source
May 27 – Elizabeth Charlotte, Princess Palatine, wife to Philippe I, Duke of Orléans (died 1722)source
August 15 – John Grubb, American politician (died 1708)source
September 8 – Luisa Roldán, Spanish artist (died 1706)source
October 11 – Nathaniel Higginson, English politician (died 1708)source
October 29 – Jan Wyck, Dutch military painter (died 1702)source
November 1 – William Lowndes, English politician (died 1724)source
20 November (bapt.) – Marie Duchatel, painter (died 1692)Belgium source
December 9 – Robert Rochfort, lawyer and politician (d.1727)Ireland source
December 25 – Archibald Pitcairne, Scottish physician (died 1713)source

Deaths

January 30 – Georges de La Tour, French Baroque painter (born 1593)source
February 28 – Arcangela Tarabotti, Venetian nun and feminist (born 1604)source
April 17 – Henry Howard, 22nd Earl of Arundel, English politician (born 1608)source
19 April – Jesper Brochmand, theologian and Bishop of Zealand (born 1585)Denmark source
April 21 – Pietro Della Valle, Italian traveller (born 1586)source
May 10 – Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, Marshal of France (born 1558)source
June 3 – Marek Sobieski, Polish noble (szlachcic) (born 1628)source
June 21 – Inigo Jones, English architect (born 1573)source
21 June – Inigo Jones, architect (born 1573)England source
July 25 – Bonaventura Peeters the Elder, Flemish marine painter (born 1614)source
25 July – Bonaventura Peeters the Elder (born 1614), painterBelgium source
August 22 – Jacob De la Gardie, Swedish soldier and statesman (born 1583)source
22 August - Jacob De la Gardie, soldier and politician (born 1583)Sweden source
September 2 – Jusepe de Ribera, Spanish Tenebrist painter and printmaker (born 1591)source
October 8 – John Greaves, English mathematician and antiquarian (born 1602)source
November 7 – Henry of Nassau-Siegen, German count, officer in the Dutch Army, diplomat for the Dutch Republic (born 1611)source
November 21 – Jan Brożek, Polish mathematician, physician, and astronomer (born 1585)source
December 23 – John Cotton, founder of Boston, Massachusetts (born 1585)source