This article is about the year 1832.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 18th century – 19th century – 20th century |
Decades: | 1800s 1810s 1820s – 1830s – 1840s 1850s 1860s |
Years: | 1829 1830 1831 – 1832 – 1833 1834 1835 |
1832 in topic: |
Humanities |
Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music |
By country |
Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – Philippines – South Africa – US – UK |
Other topics |
Rail Transport – Science – Sports |
Lists of leaders |
Colonial Governors – State leaders |
Birth and death categories |
Births – Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments – Disestablishments |
Works category |
Works |
Gregorian calendar | 1832 MDCCCXXXII |
Ab urbe condita | 2585 |
Armenian calendar | 1281 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԱ |
Assyrian calendar | 6582 |
Bahá'í calendar | -12–-11 |
Bengali calendar | 1239 |
Berber calendar | 2782 |
British Regnal year | 2 Will. 4 – 3 Will. 4 |
Buddhist calendar | 2376 |
Burmese calendar | 1194 |
Byzantine calendar | 7340–7341 |
Chinese calendar | 辛卯年十一月廿九日 (4468/4528-11-29) — to —
壬辰年十一月初十日(4469/4529-11-10) |
Coptic calendar | 1548–1549 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1824–1825 |
Hebrew calendar | 5592–5593 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1888–1889 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1754–1755 |
- Kali Yuga | 4933–4934 |
Holocene calendar | 11832 |
Iranian calendar | 1210–1211 |
Islamic calendar | 1247–1248 |
Japanese calendar | Tenpō 3 (天保3年) |
Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 12 days |
Korean calendar | 4165 |
Minguo calendar | 80 before ROC 民前80年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2375 |
Year 1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar.
Events
January–March
- February 9 – The Florida Legislative Council grants a city charter for Jacksonville, Florida.
- February 12
- Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands.
- Cholera breaks out in London, claiming at least 3,000 victims. It spreads to France and North America later this year.
- March 24 – In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..
April–June
- April 6 – USA: The Black Hawk War begins.
- May 7 – The Treaty of London creates an independent Kingdom of Greece. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria, is chosen King. Thus begins the history of modern Greece.
- May 11 – Greece is recognized as a sovereign nation; the Treaty of Constantinople ends the Greek War of Independence in July.
- May 10 – The Egyptians, aided by Maronites, seize Acre from the Ottoman Empire after a 7-month siege.
- May 30
- Germany: Hambacher Fest, a demonstration for civil liberties and national unity, ends with no result.
- Canada: The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
- June 5–6 – France: June Rebellion, anti-monarchist riots, chiefly by students, in Paris.
- June 7 – The Reform Act becomes law in Britain.
July–September
- July 2 – Andre-Michel Guerry presents his Essay on moral statistics of France, to the French Academy of Sciences, a significant step in the founding of empirical social science.
- July 4 – The University of Durham is founded by an act of Parliament and given royal assent by King William IV.
- July 9 – Commissioner of Indian Affairs post created within the War Department.
- July 10 – U.S. Survey of the Coast revived (with US Department of Treasury).
- August 2 – Bad Axe Massacre ends the last major Native American rebellion east of the Mississippi in the U.S.
- August 17 – China ceases production of iron shuriken.[citation needed]
- September – Belvedere College, Dublin, is founded by the order of the Jesuit Society of Ireland.[citation needed]
October–December
- October 19 – Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity is founded at Hamilton College.
- November 14 – Charles Carroll, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence dies at his home in Maryland at age 95.
- November 21 – Wabash College, a small, private, liberal arts college for men, is founded.
- December 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1832: Andrew Jackson is re-elected president.
- December 4 – Battle of Antwerp: The last remaining Dutch enforcement, the citadel, is under French attack.
- December 21 – Battle of Konya: The Egyptians defeat the main Ottoman army in central Anatolia.
- December 23 – The Battle of Antwerp ends with the Netherlands losing the city.
Date unknown
- George Catlin starts to live among the Sioux in the Dakota Territory.
- William Howley Archbishop of Canterbury has his coach attacked by an angry mob on his first official visit to Canterbury.
- Publication of the first Baedeker guidebook, Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne, in Koblenz.
- Publication begins (posthumously) of Carl von Clausewitz's Vom Kriege ("On War").
Births
January–June
- January 4 – George Tryon, British admiral (d. 1893)
- January 6 – Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
- January 13 – Horatio Alger, Jr., American Unitarian minister and author (d. 1899)
- January 23 – Édouard Manet, French painter (d. 1883)
- January 27 – Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
- February 18 – Octave Chanute, French-American engineer and aviation pioneer (d. 1910)
- April 5 – Jules Ferry, French premier, (d. 1893)
- April 19 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
- May 14 – Charles Peace, British criminal (d. 1879)
- May 21 – James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (d. 1905)
- June 10 – Stephen Mosher Wood, American Politician (d. 1920)
- June 17 – Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (d. 1919)
July–December
- July 6 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (d. 1867)
- July 11 – Charilaos Trikoupis, seven-time Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1896)
- August 20 – Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American aeronaut, scientist, and inventor (d. 1913)
- October 1 – Caroline Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison (d. 1892)
- October 2 – Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917)
- October 10 – Joe Cain, American parade organizer for Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama (d. 1904)
- October 29 – Narcisa de Jesús Martillo, an Ecuadorian saint (d. 1869)
- August 8 – King Georg I of Saxony (d. 1904)
- November 7 – Andrew Dickson White, American historian, diplomat, and co-founder of Cornell University (d. 1918)
- November 12 – Nancy Edberg, Swedish pioneer in women swimming (d. 1892)
- November 28 – Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (d. 1904)
- November 29 – Louisa May Alcott, American author (d. 1888)
- December 8 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)
- December 13 – Alexander Milton Ross, Canadian abolitionist (d. 1897)
- December 15 – Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (d. 1923)
- December 21 – John H. Ketcham, American politician (d. 1906)
Deaths
January–June
- January 27 – Andrew Bell, educationalist and founder of Madras College (b. 1753)
- February 3 – George Crabbe, poet and naturalist (b. 1754)
- March 4 – Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist (b. 1790)
- March 10 – Muzio Clementi, Italian composer and pianist (b. 1752)
- March 15 – Otto Wilhelm Masing, Estonian linguist (b. 1763)
- March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)
- March 29 – Maria Teresa of Austria-Este, queen consort of Piedmont-Sardinia (b. 1773)
- May 13 – Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (b. 1769)
- May 31 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
- June 5 – Ka'ahumanu, queen consort of Hawaii (b. 1768)
- June 6 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
- June 21 – Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1754)
- June 23 – James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
July–December
- July 22 – Napoleon II of France (b. 1811)
- September 2 – Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach, Austrian scientific editor and astronomer (b. 1754)
- September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
- November 12 – Henry Eckford, Scottish-born American shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer, and entrepreneur (b. 1775)
- November 14 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (b. 1737)
- November 15 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist, originator of Say's Law (b. 1767)
- December 18 – Philip Morin Freneau, poet and journalist (b. 1752)