Eternal Liiva. 999 footsteps. Footstep 9

Gregorian calendar    52
LII
Ab urbe condita    805
Assyrian calendar    4802
Bengali calendar    −541
Berber calendar    1002
Buddhist calendar    596
Burmese calendar    −586
Byzantine calendar    5560–5561
Chinese calendar    辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
2748 or 2688
    — to —
壬子年 (Water Rat)
2749 or 2689
Coptic calendar    −232 – −231
Discordian calendar    1218
Ethiopian calendar    44–45
Hebrew calendar    3812–3813
Hindu calendars    
 - Vikram Samvat    108–109
 - Shaka Samvat    N/A
 - Kali Yuga    3153–3154
Holocene calendar    10052
Iranian calendar    570 BP – 569 BP
Islamic calendar    588 BH – 587 BH
Julian calendar    52
LII
Korean calendar    2385
Minguo calendar    1860 before ROC
民前1860年
Seleucid era    363/364 AG
Thai solar calendar    594–595

Year 52 (LII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Sulla and Otho (or, less frequently, year 805 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 52 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

Emperor Claudius attempts to control the Fucine Lake by digging a 5.6 km tunnel through Monte Salviano, requiring 30,000 workers and eleven years.

In Rome a law prohibits the execution of old and crippled slaves.

Ananias, a high priest in Jerusalem, is sent to Rome after being accused of violence.

Barea Soranus is consul suffectus in Rome.

Pliny the Elder writes his account of the German wars.

Tiridates I, brother of Vologases I, comes to power in Armenia as an adversary of the Romans.

In Britain, governor Publius Ostorius Scapula dies while campaigning against the Silures of south Wales. Following his death, the Roman Second Legion are heavily defeated by the Silures. His replacement is Aulus Didius Gallus, who quells the rebellion and consolidates the gains the Romans have so far made, but does not seek new ones.

The Yuejue Shu, the first known gazetteer of China, is written during the Han Dynasty.

Saint Thomas, one of the twelve disciples of Jesus, is believed to have landed in Kodungallur, India to preach the Gospel; the Marthoma Church, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church,the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church the Indian Orthodox Church, and the Assyrian Church of the East claim descent from him.

Fifty-two is the 6th Bell number and a decagonal number. It is an untouchable number, since it is never the sum of proper divisors of any number, and it is a noncototient since it is never the answer to the equation x - φ(x).

The atomic number of tellurium

Messier object M52, a magnitude 8.0 open cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia, also known as The New General Catalogue object NGC 52, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus.

The Saros number of the solar eclipse series which began on -1378 August 14 and ended on 155 February. The duration of Saros series 52 was 1532.5 years, and it contained 86 solar eclipses. The Saros number of the lunar eclipse series which began on -1026 May 27 and ended on 204 June. The duration of Saros series 52 was 1280.1 years, and it contained 72 lunar eclipses.

U.S. Route 52 that runs from South Carolina to North Dakota.

The approximate number of weeks in a year. 52 weeks is 364 days, while the tropical year is 365.24 days long. According to ISO 8601, most years have 52 weeks while some have 53.

A significant number in the Maya calendar.

On the piano, the number of white keys (notes in the C major scale).

The number of cards in a standard deck of playing cards, not counting Jokers or advertisement cards.

The name of a practical joke card game 52 Pickup.

The number of letters in the English alphabet, if majuscules are distinguished from minuscules.

52 Hand Blocks, a variant of the martial art jailhouse rock.

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