1852

• French physicist Léon Foucault invents the gyroscope.

These people were born in 1852:

• Japanese emperor Meiji.
• Scottish chemist William Ramsay.

These people died in 1852:

• American statesman Daniel Webster.
• American statesman Henry Clay.
• Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.
• Louis Braille, French teacher of the blind.

1851 - 1852 - 1853

19th century

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