1832

This article is about the year 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:

Humanities

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature – Music

By country

Australia – Canada – France – Germany – Mexico – 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

1832 in other calendars

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
- 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
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.
• 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–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.
• 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.

Hambacher Fest.

Births

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 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

• 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)