1832

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Sports – Rail Transport

Countries:     Australia – Canada – China – France – Germany – Ireland – Mexico – Netherlands – New Zealand – Norway – South Africa – Spain – UK – USA

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Contents 1 Events of 1832 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 2.1 January–June 2.2 July–December 3 Deaths 3.1 January–June 3.2 July–December

Events of 1832

January–June

• February 9 – The Florida Legislative Council grants a city charter for Jacksonville, Florida.
• February 12 – Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands.
• February 12 – 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 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 first opened.
• June 5 – France: June Rebellion, Anti-monarchist riots briefly break out in Paris.
• June 6 – The barricades fall and the Student Uprisings of 1832 end.
• June 7 – The Reform Act 1832 becomes law in Britain.

July–December

• 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 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.
• September – Belvedere College, Dublin, is founded by the order of the Jesuit Society of Ireland.
• 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.
• 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.

Undated

• 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.

Births

1832 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1832 MDCCCXXXII
Ab urbe condita	2585
Armenian calendar	1281 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԱ
Bahá'í calendar	-12 – -11
Bengali calendar	1239
Berber calendar	2782
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
- Bikram Samwat	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)
Korean calendar	4165
Thai solar calendar	2375

January–June

• 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 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, 7-time Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1896)
• 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 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

• 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 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)