1652 year

• The British capture of Connaught and West Ulster. The completion of the conquest of Ireland .
• August 12 - The Long Parliament of Great Britain issued the Irish Settlement Act , which authorized the massive seizure of land from the Irish population ^[1] .
• 1652-1654 - The First Anglo-Dutch War .
• 1652–1653 - The brutal suppression of peasant unrest in Smoland and Nerk (Kingdom of Sweden).
• October 11 - The capture of Barcelona by Juan Jose of Austria , the end of the Catalan war
• Bogdan Khmelnitsky sent a detachment of his son Timosha to Moldova . Hetman Martin Kalinovsky decided to attack the detachment, but Khmelnitsky learned about it.
• May 22-23 (June 1-2 NST) - A major victory for the Ukrainians near Batog . Allied relations between Moldavian ruler Vasily Lupu and Khmelnitsky were restored. Summer - The Sejm of the Commonwealth decided to create a 50,000th mercenary army.
• The Qing government demanded that the Russians leave the lands they occupied along the Amur River .
• The uprising in Shanxi , the rebels entered into an alliance with the Mongol prince. The Manchu army was defeated. Dorgun managed to tear the Mongols from an alliance with the rebels and starve them to death.
• Seven provinces cleared of the Manchu. Qing attracted part of the Chinese feudal lords, ending the confiscation of estates. They strengthened the troops of the Mongol cavalry and acquired guns from the Europeans and secured the support of the fleet. After a long and bloody struggle, the Manchus conquered Zhejiang , Fujian and Jiangxi . The population of Nanchang has been completely exterminated.
• With the help of Chinese merchants, Zheng Chenggong (son of Zheng Zhilong) equipped a strong fleet and liberated the city of Amoy and most of Fujian .
• Dyogorani defeated by one of the Moroccan leaders.
• The Republic of the United Provinces founded the Cape Colony - Cape Town - on the Cape of Good Hope .
• The foundation of the city of Ostrogozhsk as a military fortress is a prison on the southern borders of Russia (on the Belgorod line).

• Metropolitan Nikon of Novgorod ascended to the patriarchal throne.

See also: Category: Born in 1652

• February 14 - Camille d'Auton Tallard , French commander.
• May 5 - Boris Petrovich Sheremetev (d. 1719 ), Russian military leader, diplomat, Field Marshal , first Earl of Russia.
• Jozef Slushka , full Lithuanian hetman .

See also: Category: Deaths in 1652

• March 6 - Theodosius Borovik , Uniate monk; 17th century Russian-Polish writer and translator.