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1832 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1832
MDCCCXXXII
Ab urbe condita2585
Armenian calendar1281
ԹՎ ՌՄՁԱ
Assyrian calendar6582
Balinese saka calendar1753–1754
Bengali calendar1239
Berber calendar2782
British Regnal year2 Will. 4 – 3 Will. 4
Buddhist calendar2376
Burmese calendar1194
Byzantine calendar7340–7341
Chinese calendar辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit)
4528 or 4468
    — to —
壬辰年 (Water Dragon)
4529 or 4469
Coptic calendar1548–1549
Discordian calendar2998
Ethiopian calendar1824–1825
Hebrew calendar5592–5593
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1888–1889
 - Shaka Samvat1753–1754
 - Kali Yuga4932–4933
Holocene calendar11832
Igbo calendar832–833
Iranian calendar1210–1211
Islamic calendar1247–1248
Japanese calendarTenpō 3
(天保３年)
Javanese calendar1759–1760
Julian calendarGregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar4165
Minguo calendar80 before ROC
民前80年
Nanakshahi calendar364
Thai solar calendar2374–2375
Tibetan calendar阴金兔年
(female Iron-Rabbit)
1958 or 1577 or 805
    — to —
阳水龙年
(male Water-Dragon)
1959 or 1578 or 806
May 27: start of the Hambach Festival
June 7: Great Reform Act

1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1832nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 832nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 32nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1832, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events[]

January–March[]

  • January 6 – Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds the New-England Anti-Slavery Society.
  • January 13 – The Christmas Rebellion of slaves is brought to an end in Jamaica, after the island's white planters organize militias and the British Army sends companies of the 84th regiment to enforce martial law. More than 300 of the slave rebels will be publicly hanged for their part in the destruction.[1]
  • February 6 – The Swan River Colony is renamed Western Australia.[2][3]
  • February 9 – The Florida Legislative Council grants a city charter for Jacksonville, Florida.
  • February 12
    • Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
    • A cholera epidemic in London claims at least 3,000 lives; the contagion spreads to France and North America later this year.
  • February 28 – Charles Darwin and the crew of HMS Beagle arrive at South America for the first time.[4]
  • March 24 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.

April–June[]

  • April 6 – The Black Hawk War begins in the United States.
  • 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 10 – The Egyptians, aided by Maronites, seize Acre from the Ottoman Empire after a 7-month siege.
  • May 11 – Greece is recognized as a sovereign nation; the Treaty of Constantinople ends the Greek War of Independence in July.
  • May 16 – Juan Godoy discovers the rich silver outcrops of Chañarcillo sparking the Chilean silver rush.[5][6]
  • May 30
    • The Hambacher Fest, a demonstration for civil liberties and national unity in Germany, ends with no result.
    • The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario (Canada) is opened.
  • June 5–6 – The June Rebellion in France, anti-monarchist riots led chiefly by students, breaks out in Paris.
  • June 7 – The Reform Act becomes law in the United Kingdom, expanding the franchise.
  • June 9 – The Strasburg Rail Road is incorporated by the Pennsylvania State Legislature, making it the oldest continuously operating railroad in the Western Hemisphere.

July–September[]

  • July 1 – Global conglomerate Jardine Matheson is founded in Canton (modern day Guangzhou) in Qing dynasty China by Scottish merchants.[7]
  • July 2 – André-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 – Durham University is founded in the north of England by an act of Parliament given royal assent by King William IV.
  • July 9 – The Commissioner of Indian Affairs post is created within the United States Department of War.
  • July 10 – The United States Survey of the Coast is revived within the Department of the Treasury.
  • August 2 – The Bad Axe Massacre ends the last major Native American rebellion east of the Mississippi in the United States.
  • August 7 – William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, has his coach attacked by an angry mob on his first official visit to Canterbury because of his opposition to the Reform Act in the United Kingdom.
  • August 27 – Black Hawk (Sauk leader) surrenders to the United States authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
  • September 22 – Qasim al-Ahmad is appointed as the new Ottoman Governor (mutasallim) of Jerusalem (Kudüs), after Sultan Mahmud II dismisses Muhammad Said Agha.[8]

October–December[]

  • October 4 – Prince Otto of Bavaria, the second oldest son of King Ludwig I, is selected by Europe's major powers to become Othon, the first King of Greece, after the Hellenic nation's reacquisition of independence.[9]
  • October 20 – Principal Chief Levi Colbert (Itawamba Mingo) and other leaders of the Chickasaw Nation of American Indians sign the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek with the United States, ceding their remaining 9,400 square miles of land to the U.S., in return for a promise that they will receive all proceeds of sales of the land by the federal government to private owners, along with expenses for relocation and food and supplies for one year. The area ceded includes the entire northern one-sixth of the state of Mississippi.[10]
  • November 21 – Wabash College, a small, private, liberal arts college for men, is founded.
  • November 24 – Nullification Crisis: The U.S. state of South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, challenging the power of the U.S. federal government, by declaring that it will not enforce national tariffs signed into law in 1828 and 1832.
  • December 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1832: Andrew Jackson is re-elected president.
  • December 4 – Siege of Antwerp: The last remaining Dutch stronghold, Antwerp Citadel, comes under French attack in the aftermath of the Belgian Revolution.
  • December 10 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson responds to the Nullification Crisis by threatening to send the U.S. Army and Navy into South Carolina if it does not comply.[11]
  • December 21 – Battle of Konya: The Egyptians defeat the main Ottoman army in central Anatolia.
  • December 23 – The Siege of Antwerp ends with the Dutch garrison losing the citadel.
  • December 28 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.

Date unknown[]

  • George Catlin starts to live among the Sioux in the Dakota Territory.
  • The first Baedeker guidebook, Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne, is published in Koblenz.
  • Publication begins (posthumously) of Carl von Clausewitz's Vom Kriege ("On War").
  • The City of Buffalo in New York is incorporated.
  • The Cumberland and Oxford Canal connects the largest lakes of southern Maine with the seaport of Portland, Maine.[12]
  • Global watch brand Longines is founded in Switzerland.[13]
  • The first commutator DC electric motor, capable of turning machinery, is demonstrated by William Sturgeon in London.

Births[]

January–June[]

Édouard Manet
Wilhelm Busch
Lucretia Garfield
T. Muthuswamy Iyer

July–December[]

Caroline Harrison
Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld

Date unknown[]

Deaths[]

January–June[]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Jean-François Champollion
  • January 26 – Alexander Cochrane, British admiral (b. 1758)
  • January 27 – Andrew Bell, Scottish educationalist, founder of Madras College, India (b. 1753)
  • February 2 – Ignacio López Rayón, leader of the Mexican War of Independence (b. 1773)[17]
  • February 3 – George Crabbe, English 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 Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia (b. 1773)
  • April 3 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, Prime Minister of France (b. 1778)
  • April 12 – Shadrach Bond, American politician and the first governor of Illinois (b. 1773)
  • April 18 – Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (b. 1761)
  • May 13 – Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (b. 1769)
  • May 23 – William Grant, British lawyer, politician and judge (b. 1752)
  • May 28 – Nicolas Bergasse, French lawyer (b. 1750)
  • May 31 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
  • June 1 – Jean Maximilien Lamarque, French general and politician (b. 1770)
  • June 5 – Kaʻahumanu, queen consort of Hawaii (b. 1768)
  • June 6 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
  • June 10 – Joseph Hiester, American politician (b. 1752)
  • June 21 – Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1754)
  • June 23 – James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)

July–December[]

Napoleon II of France
Walter Scott
  • July 22 – Napoleon II of France (b. 1811)
  • July 31 – Edward Abbott, Australian soldier, politician and judge (b. 1766)
  • August 24 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French military engineer and physicist (b. 1796)
  • September 1 – Joseph Kinghorn, Particular Baptist Minister (b. 1766)
  • September 2 – Franz Xaver von Zach, Austrian scientific editor and astronomer (b. 1754)
  • September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish poet and novelist (b. 1771)
  • September 27 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (b. 1781)
  • October 11 – Thomas Hardy, British political reformer (b. 1752)
  • October 31 – Antonio Scarpa, Italian anatomist (b. 1752)
  • November 8 – Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, French astronomer and mathematician (b. 1768)
  • November 12
    • Henry Eckford, Scottish-born American shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer, and entrepreneur (b. 1775)
    • Barnaba Oriani, Italian priest (b. 1752)
  • 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 Freneau, American poet and journalist (b. 1752)
  • undated – Birgithe Kühle, Norwegian journalist (b. 1762)

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  3. ^ "On this day, 6th February 1832". State Library of New South Wales. Retrieved February 13, 2021.
  4. ^ Desmond, Adrian; Moore, James (1994). Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist. W. W. Norton & Company. p. 119.
  5. ^ Montecino Aguirre, Sonia (2015). "Alicanto". Mitos de Chile: Enciclopedia de seres, apariciones y encantos (in Spanish). Catalonia. p. 47–48. ISBN 978-956-324-375-8.
  6. ^ Villalobos Rivera, Sergio; Silva G., Osvaldo; Silva V., Fernando; Patricio, Estelle M., eds. (1995) [1974]. Historia de Chile [History of Chile] (in Spanish). Santiago de Chile: Editorial Universitaria. pp. 469–472.
  7. ^ "Early Trading Years 1830–1869". Jardines. Archived from the original on June 26, 2011. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  8. ^ Rood, Judith Mendelsohn (2004). Sacred Law In The Holy City: The Khedival Challenge To The Ottomans As Seen From Jerusalem, 1829-1841. Brill. p. 92.
  9. ^ Schmitt, Carl (2008). Constitutional Theory. Duke University Press. p. 396.
  10. ^ Busbee, Westley F., Jr. (2014). Mississippi: A History. John Wiley & Sons. p. 84.
  11. ^ Smith, Courtney, ed. (2016). American History through its Greatest Speeches: A Documentary History of the United States. ABC-CLIO. p. 32.
  12. ^ Ward, Ernest E. (1967). My First Sixty Years in Harrison, Maine. Cardinal Printing. p. 7.
  13. ^ "1832". History. Longines. Retrieved January 10, 2021.
  14. ^ Johan Gabriel Ståhlberg – KirjastoVirma (in Finnish)
  15. ^ "Louisa May Alcott | Biography, Childhood, Family, Books, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
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