- 1832
Year 1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a
leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of theGregorian Calendar (or aleap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slowerJulian calendar ).Events of 1832
January - June
*February 9 - TheFlorida Legislative Council grants a city charter forJacksonville, Florida .
*February 12 -Ecuador annexes theGalapagos Islands .
*February 12 -Cholera breaks out inLondon , claiming at least 3,000 victims. It spreads toFrance andNorth America later this year.
*March 24 - InHiram, Ohio a group of men beat,tar and feather Mormon leaderJoseph Smith, Jr. .
*April 6 - USA: TheBlack Hawk War begins.
*May 7 - The Treaty of London creates an independent Kingdom ofGreece . Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King. Thus begins theHistory of modern Greece .
*May 11 -Greece is recognized as a sovereign nation; the Treaty of Constantinople ends theGreek War of Independence in July.
*May 27 - TheEgyptians , aided byMaronite s, seizeAcre from theOttoman Empire after a 7-monthsiege .
*May 30
** Germany:Hambacher Fest , a demonstration forcivil liberties and national unity ends with no result.
** Canada: TheRideau Canal in easternOntario is first opened.
*June 5 - France: Anti-monarchist riots briefly break out inParis .
*June 6 - The barricades fall and the Student Uprisings of 1832 end.
*June 7 - TheReform Act 1832 becomes law in Britain.July - December
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July 4 -The University of Durham is founded by an act of Parliament and given royal assent by King William IV.
*September -Belvedere College ,Dublin , is founded by the order of theJesuit Society of Ireland.
*October 19 -Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity is founded at Hamilton College.
*December 3 -U.S. presidential election, 1832 :Andrew Jackson is re-elected president.
*December 4 - Battle of Antwerp: The last remaining Dutch enforcement, thecitadel , is under French attack.
*December 21 -Battle of Konya : TheEgypt ians defeat the main Ottoman army in centralAnatolia .
*December 23 - The Battle of Antwerp ends with theNetherlands losing the city.Undated
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George Catlin starts to live among theSioux in theDakota Territory .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 -Edouard Manet , French painter (d.1883 )
*January 27 -Lewis Carroll , English author (d.1898 )
*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 theChina Inland Mission (d.1905 )
*May 28 -Tony Pastor , American vaudeville and theater impresario (d.1908 )
*June 17 - SirWilliam Crookes , English chemist and physicist (d.1919 )July - December
*July 6 - EmperorMaximilian I of Mexico (d.1867 )
*July 11 -Charilaos Trikoupis , 7-timePrime Minister of Greece (d.1896 )
*October 1 -Caroline Harrison , wife of PresidentBenjamin Harrison (d.1892 )
*October 2 -Edward Burnett Tylor , English anthropologist (d.1917 )
*October 10 -Joe Cain , American parade organizer forMardi Gras in Mobile ,Alabama (d.1904 )
*August 8 - King Georg I of Saxony (d.1904 )
*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 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 (b.1752 )
*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
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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 theUnited States Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (b.1737 )
*December 18 -Philip Morin Freneau , poet and journalist (b.1752 )
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