1952

Timeline

The Ion Dragon roaring on top of the USS Lawton

1951 ← 1952 → 1953

Before 1900

Prehistoric eras: Precambrian • Carboniferous • Permian • Jurassic • Cretaceous • Last Ice Age

BCE: 30,000 • 8000 • 4th millennium • 1100 • 218

Before 1800: 79 • 1274 • 1348 • 1357 • 1502 • 1556 • 1588 • 1605 • 1749

1800s: 1804 • 1805 • 1850 • 1851 • 1853 • 1862 • 1875 • 1881 • 1886 • 1888 • 1890 • 1893 • 1894 • 1895 • 1896 • 1897 • 1898 • 1899

1900–1999

'00s: 1901 • 1902 • 1903 • 1904 • 1905 • 1906 • 1907 • 1908 • 1909

'10s: 1910 • 1911 • 1912 • 1913 • 1914 • 1915 • 1916 • 1917 • 1918 • 1919

'20s: 1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1923 • 1924 • 1925 • 1926 • 1927 • 1928 • 1929

'30s: 1930 • 1931 • 1932 • 1933 • 1934 • 1935 • 1936 • 1937 • 1938 • 1939

'40s: 1940 • 1941 • 1942 • 1943 • 1944 • 1945 • 1946 • 1947 • 1948 • 1949

'50s: 1950 • 1951 • 1952 • 1953 • 1954 • 1955 • 1956 • 1957 • 1958 • 1959

'60s: 1960 • 1961 • 1962 • 1963 • 1964 • 1965 • 1966 • 1967 • 1968 • 1969

'70s: 1970 • 1971 • 1972 • 1973 • 1974 • 1975 • 1976 • 1977 • 1978 • 1979

'80s: 1980 • 1981 • 1982 • 1983 • 1984 • 1985 • 1986 • 1987 • 1988 • 1989

'90s: 1990 • 1991 • 1992 • 1993 • 1994 • 1995 • 1996 • 1997 • 1998 • 1999

2000–present

'00s: 2000 • 2001 • 2002 • 2003 • 2004 • 2005 • 2006 • 2007 • 2008 • 2009

'10s: 2010 • 2011 • 2012 • 2013 • 2014 • 2015 • 2016 • 2017 • 2018 • 2019

'20s: 2020 • 2021 • 2022 • 2023 • 2024 • 2025 • 2026

Future

2027 • 2028 • 2029 • 2030 • 2031 • 2034 • 2035 • 2036 • 2039 • 2041 • 2042 • 2043 • 2045 • 2046 • 2047 • 2048 • 2097 • 2204 • 22,000

In the real world

February

• 27 February: Shogo Tomiyama is born in Okinawa, Japan.

March

• 3 March: Kazuki Omori is born in Osaka, Japan.

April

• 28 April: Following the Treaty of San Francisco in 1951, the Allied occupation of Japan comes to an end. Full sovereignty is restored to the majority of Japan except for Iwo Jima and Okinawa, which remain under the administration of the United States until 1968 and 1972, respectively.

June

• 20 June: John Goodman is born in Affton, Missouri, USA.

September

• 24 September: KFC is founded.

November

• 1 November: Ivy Mike, the first ever detonation of a hydrogen bomb, takes place.

December

• 5-9 December: The Great Smog of London occurs, killing between 10,000 and 12,000 people in London. The incident, believed to be the worst air pollution event in British history, led to a greater awareness of the connection between air quality and health, as well as the Clean Air Act, which was implemented in 1956.

In fiction

• Monarch theorizes that only the wings of a giant creature could have caused the anticyclone responsible for the Great Smog of London. (Monsterverse)
• Bill Randa joins Monarch as a cryptozoologist, motivated by the 1943 sinking of the USS Lawton by a Titan known as the Ion Dragon. (Kong: Skull Island, Monarch: Legacy of Monsters)
• U.S. Army 2nd Lieutenant Lee Shaw is assigned to escort Dr. Keiko Miura through the Philippine jungle. There they meet Randa, and together encounter the Ion Dragon. (Monarch: Legacy of Monsters)

References

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