1852

1852 was 19 years before the founding of the City of Birmingham and the 33rd year of Alabama statehood.

Events

• The Alabama legislature authorized the creation of an Alabama Insane Hospital on a tract adjacent to the University of Alabama.

Business

• Maxwell Plantation was established on the Black Warrior River south of Tuscaloosa.
• The Sewanee Furnace Company was established in Nashville.

Individuals

• Hudson W. Nelson became Shelby County Sheriff.
• John D. Phelan became an Alabama Supreme Court justice.
• John Terry earned his license to practice law.

Births

• March 15: George Cruikshank, educator, newspaper editor, and historian
• May 15: James Van Hoose, Episcopal priest and the Mayor of Birmingham
• September 15: Thomas Walker, Shiloh Baptist Church founder

Context

In 1852, the Taiping Rebellion continued. The Studebaker Brothers Wagon Company was established. Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe was published. United States statesman Henry Clay was the first to receive the honor of lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda. Frederick Douglass delivered his famous speech "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro" in Rochester, New York.

Notable births in 1852 F. W. Woolworth, Julius Richard Petri, William Ramsay, Henri Becquerel, and Albert Abraham Michelson. Notable deaths included Louis Braille, Nikolai Gogol, Henry Clay, and Daniel Webster.

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