Timeline April 1852

Events in April 1852 2

• 1783 – 1852 Vasily Zhukovsky (1783-1852) Died 24 April 1852, aged 69 Vasily Zhukovsky was a leading Russian Romantic poet and translator who tutored the future Tsar Alexander II. He died in Baden-Baden, Germany, while living abroad.
• 1852 Second Anglo-Burmese War British forces invade and annex Lower Burma British warships bombarded and captured Rangoon, opening a second war against the Konbaung dynasty of Burma. By December Britain had seized the province of Pegu, annexing all of Lower Burma to British India.