This Year in History:
1852
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
Russ Mitchell recaps the historical events that occurred on March 18th in this video clip from This Day in History. Henry Wells and William Fargo founded their company, Wells Fargo…
On March 18, 1852, in New York City, Henry Wells and William G. Fargo join with several other investors to launch their namesake business, today one of the world’s largest…
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti‑slavery novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, is published. The novel sold 300,000 copies within three months and was so widely read that when President Abraham Lincoln met Stowe…
On May 1, 1852, the adventurer and performer Calamity Jane is born near Princeton, Missouri. The myths and fabrications concerning the life of Calamity Jane are so numerous it is…
On May 8, 1852, The Boston Olive Branch publishes “The Rival Painters: A Story of Rome,” the first known story to appear in print by Louisa May Alcott, who will…
During an Independence Day celebration in Rochester, New York on July 5, 1852, Frederick Douglass delivers what would become his most celebrated speech, “What to the slave is the Fourth of…
