1852
Events
November 17 — The Prussian government dissolved Karl Marx's Union of Communists.
Science
The idea of heat death (William Thomson).
The last steller's cormorant was killed.
Born
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June 25 - Antonio Gaudi, Spanish architect († 1926)
August 30 - Jacob Hendrik Van Hoff, Dutch chemist
September 15 - Hryhoriy Oleksandrovich Machtet, Russian writer, revolutionary (†1901).
Died
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