History
1652
General
Population: 548 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Corneille (tragedy), Johann Lauremberg (low German poetry), Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac (religion),
John Donne Paradoxes and Problems (posthumous), Hayashi Shunsai (history of Japan), Gerrard Winstanley (political treatise)
Art includes Carel Fabritius "View of Delft", Adriaen van Ostade "Cottage Dancers", Rembrandt "Portrait of Hendrickje"
Music includes John Hilton's collection of rounds and cannons, Minuet comes into fashion
- Religion: Society of Friends (Quakers) founded
- Technology: Otto von Guericke invents air pump
- Deaths: Architect Inigo Jones, Composer Gregorio Allegri, Religious writer John Cotton, Painter Juesepe de Ribera (Lo Spagnoletto)
Africa
- South Africa: Dutch East India Company under Jan van Rebuke founds Cape Town
Asia
- Japan: Young boys prohibited from taking roles in Kabuki theater
Europe
- General: Start of first Dutch war with England to 1654
- England: English parliament passes Act of Pardon and Oblivion to reconcile Royalists
First London coffee house openes in St. Michael's Alley at Cornhill
English defeat Dutch at Battle of the Downs off Folkestone before they declare war
- France: Provisional Fronde government set up in Paris - Louis XIV reestablishes lawful government recalling Mazarin
French civil uprising quelled
- German States: Imperial German Academy of naturalists founded at Schweinfurt
- Holy Roman Empire: First opera house in Vienna
- Russia: End of starvation
- Spain: Spain intervenes in Fronde revolt against Louis XIV – Louis returns to Paris
Barcelona surrenders to Philip IV – end of Catalan revolt
East
- Maine: Maine joined to MA Bay Company
- Maryland: Governor William Stone of Maryland deprived of office by Cromwell's commissioners
- Rhode Island: RI enacts slavery law that limits slavery to ten years