February 9 – The city of Jacksonville, Florida receives its town charter from the legislative council of Florida Territory.
March 3 – In Worcester v. Georgia, the United States Supreme Court holds that Cherokee Indians are entitled to federal protection from the actions of state governments.
March 24 – In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and featherLatter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith.
April 6 – The Black Hawk War begins.
May 9 – Lafayette College classes begin.
May 21–23 – 1832 Democratic National Convention held in Baltimore.
May 21 – Washington Irving returns to the US after seventeen years living in Europe.
July 4 – John Neal delivers the first public lecture in the US to advocate the rights of women.[1][2]
July 10 – President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
July 24 – Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains using the South Pass (Wyoming).
July–August – The 1829–51 cholera pandemic reaches the Northeastern seaboard, beginning with New York City.[3]
August 27 – Black Hawk (Sauk leader) surrenders to the authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
October 8 – Washington Irving and Henry Leavitt Ellsworth arrive at Fort Gibson, Indian Territory (later Fort Gibson, Oklahoma[4]) in the late morning hours. They leave the fort on October 10, with a small company of Rangers who escort them to the camp of Captain Jesse Bean who is waiting for them near the Arkansas River. Thus begins one of the first steps in the United States effort to remove the indigenous peoples of the Americas from their homes on the east coast in what would become known as the "Trail of Tears" some six years later.
October 19 – Alpha Delta Phi fraternity is founded at Hamilton College (New York).
November 2–December 5 – Andrew Jackson defeats Henry Clay in the U.S. presidential election.
November 14 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the last surviving signatory of the Declaration of Independence dies at his home in Maryland at age 95.
November 24 – Ordinance of Nullification is passed.
December 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1832: Andrew Jackson is re-elected president.
December – Skull and Bonessecret society of Yale University established.
December 28 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
Undated[]
George Catlin starts to live among the Sioux in the Dakota Territory.
Wills Eye Hospital in Philadelphia funded by a bequest.
William Ticknor co-founds the publishing house that will become Ticknor and Fields, a predecessor of Houghton Mifflin, in Boston, Massachusetts.
John Neal publishes "The Haunted Man," the first work of American fiction to use psychotherapy as a theme.[5]
Ongoing[]
Nullification Crisis (1832–1833)
Births[]
January 1 – Charles N. Felton, U.S. Senator from California from 1891 to 1893 (died 1914)
January 13 – Horatio Alger, Jr., Unitarian minister and author (died 1899)
^Weyler, Karen A. (2012). "Chapter 11: John Neal and the Early Discourse of American Women's Rights". In Watts, Edward; Carlson, David J. (eds.). John Neal and Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press. p. 248. ISBN978-1-61148-420-5.
^Sears, Donald A. (1978). John Neal. Boston, Massachusetts: Twayne Publishers. p. 98. ISBN080-5-7723-08.
^Rosenberg, Charles E. (1987). The Cholera Years: The United States in 1832, 1849, and 1866. The University of Chicago Press. ISBN9780226726779.