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WTH happened in 1852 | Year in Review

Welcome to WTHistory! In this series we document every significant events that happened between 1776 to 2024, one year at a time. 1852, a year filled with groundbreaking inventions, powerful speeches, political shifts, and global conflicts that shaped the world. In the United States, Mount Sinai Hospital was founded in New York, Wells Fargo & Company began operations, and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin shook the nation. Frederick Douglass delivered his fiery What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July? speech, Henry Clay became the first American to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol, and the very first intercollegiate athletic event was held between Yale and Harvard. The year also witnessed the presidential election of Franklin Pierce and the beginnings of Smith & Wesson, Loyola College, Antioch College, and Mills College. In Europe, President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaimed a new constitution before declaring himself Emperor Napoleon III. The Palace of Westminster opened in London, the Great Ormond Street Hospital admitted its first patient, and Henri Giffard flew the first airship. Annibale de Gasparis discovered two new asteroids, while Francis Guthrie proposed the Four Color Theorem. November also brought the publication of Leo Tolstoy’s debut novel Childhood. Globally, the Battle of Caseros reshaped Argentina, Britain began the Second Anglo-Burmese War, and the Taiping Rebellion surged across China with major sieges and conquests. The Birkenhead disaster off Cape Town became legendary for its “women and children first” discipline. Meanwhile, the New Zealand Constitution Act granted self-government, French forces captured Laghouat, and a massive earthquake near the Banda Islands unleashed a deadly tsunami. Elsewhere, Devil’s Island opened as a penal colony, Chinese laborers were brought to Hawaii, Germans were encouraged to migrate to Chile, and the De La Salle Brothers established schools in Singapore and Penang. 🔔 Like, subscribe, and hit the bell icon to stay updated with more fascinating historical recaps! #history #americanhistory #britishhistory #industrialrevolution #usconstitution #yearinreview #timeline #whathappend #globalhistory #historychannel #onthisyear #australia #australianhistory #historicalfacts #indianhistory #europeanhistory #history #victorianera