| 8th January 1952 | West Germany announces eight million refugees inside its borders. |
| 7th February 1952 | Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom at St. James's Palace. |
| 14th February 1952 | The Winter Olympics open in Oslo, Norway. |
| 15th February 1952 | The funeral of King George VI takes place at St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle. |
| 1st May 1952 | East Germany threatens to form its own Army. |
| 18th May 1952 | Ann Davison becomes the first woman to single-handedly sail the Atlantic Ocean. |
| 15th June 1952 | “The Diary of Anne Frank” is published. |
| 19th July 1952 | The Summer Olympics open in Helsinki, Finland. |
| 16th August 1952 | Floods devastate Lynmouth in North Devon, killing thirty-four people. |
| 26th August 1952 | A British passenger jet flies twice over the Atlantic Ocean in the same day. |
| 8th October 1952 | A large crash involving three trains occurs at the Harrow railway station, killing 112 people. |
| 19th October 1952 | John Bamford, aged 15-years-old, rescues victims of a house fire and subsequently becomes the youngest person to have been awarded the George Cross. |
| 25th November 1952 | Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play “The Mousetrap” opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It is now the longest continuously running production of a play in history. |
| 4th December 1952 | A "killer fog" descends on London and the word "Smog", a combination of "smoke" and "fog", originates. |
| 14th December 1952 | The first successful surgical separation of Siamese twins is conducted in Mount Sinai Hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. |