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 – Brazil - Canada – Denmark - France – Germany – Mexico – Norway - Philippines - Portugal– Russia - South Africa – Spain - Sweden - United Kingdom – United States

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
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 (Metal Rabbit) 4528 or 4468     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4529 or 4469
Coptic calendar	1548–1549
Discordian calendar	2998
Ethiopian calendar	1824–1825
Hebrew calendar	5592–5593
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1888–1889
- Shaka Samvat	1754–1755
- Kali Yuga	4933–4934
Holocene calendar	11832
Igbo calendar	832–833
Iranian calendar	1210–1211
Islamic calendar	1247–1248
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 3 (天保３年)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4165
Minguo calendar	80 before ROC 民前80年
Thai solar calendar	2374–2375

1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (dominical letter AG) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday (dominical letter CB) 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. Note that the Julian day for 1832 is 12 calendar days difference, which continued to be used from 1582 until the complete conversion of the Gregorian calendar was entirely done in 1929.

Events

January–March

• 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 victims. It spreads to France and North America later in the year.
• March 24 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.

April–June

• April 6 – United States: 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 24 – Francois Arban, early French balloonist makes his 1st ascent.
• 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 – 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 act of Parliament given royal assent by King William IV.
• July 9 – Commissioner of Indian Affairs post created within the United States Department of War.
• July 10 – United States Survey of the Coast revived (with Department of the Treasury).
• August 2 – Bad Axe Massacre ends the last major Native American rebellion east of the Mississippi in the U.S.
• 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 Britain.
• August 17 – China ceases production of iron shuriken.
• August 27 – Black Hawk (Sauk leader) surrenders to the United States authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
• September – Belvedere College, Dublin, is founded by the order of the Jesuit Society of Ireland.

October–December

• November 14 – Charles Carroll, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence dies at his home in Maryland at age 95.
• November 21 – Wabash College, a small, private, liberal arts college for men, is founded.
• 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 Siege of Antwerp ends with the Netherlands losing the city.

Date unknown

• George Catlin starts to live among the Sioux in the Dakota Territory.
• Publication of the first Baedeker guidebook, Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne, in Koblenz.
• Publication begins (posthumously) of Carl von Clausewitz's Vom Kriege ("On War").

Hambacher Fest.

• 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.

Births

January–June

Édouard Manet

File:Wilhelm Busch.jpg

Wilhelm Busch

• January 4 – George Tryon, British admiral (d. 1893)
• 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 3 – James Sewall Reed, American soldier (d. 1864)
• April 5 – Jules Ferry, French premier (d. 1893)
• April 15
  • John Irwin, American admiral (d. 1901)
  • Wilhelm Busch, German humorist, poet, illustrator and painter (d. 1908)
• April 19 – José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1916)
• May 14 – Charles Peace, English criminal (d. 1879)
• May 21 – Hudson Taylor, English founder of the China Inland Mission (d. 1905)
• May 27 – Alexandr Aksakov, Russian writer (d. 1903)
• June 10
  • Stephen Mosher Wood, American politician (d. 1920)
  • Nikolaus Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
• June 17 – Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (d. 1919)
• June 18 – Jonathan, Saint Helena tortoise (still alive as of 2015)

July–December

Gustave Eiffel

• July 6 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (d. 1867)
• July 11 – Charilaos Trikoupis, seven-time Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1896)
• July 26 – Joseph P. Fyffe, American admiral (d. 1896)
• August 2 – Henry Steel Olcott, American officer (d. 1907)
• August 20 – Thaddeus S. C. Lowe, American aeronaut, scientist and inventor (d. 1913)
• October 1 – Caroline Harrison, First Lady of the United States (d. 1892)
• October 2 – Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917)
• October 4 – Thorborg Rappe, Swedish social reformer (d. 1902)
• October 10 – Joe Cain, American parade organizer for Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama (d. 1904)
• October 23 – Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia, fourth son and seventh child of Tsar Nicholas I of Russia and Charlotte of Prussia (d. 1909)
• October 29 – Narcisa de Jesús, Ecuadorian-born philanthropist and lay hermit, sainted (d. 1869)
• August 8 – George, King 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 of women's 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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Jean-François Champollion

• January 26 – Alexander Cochrane, British admiral (b. 1758)
• January 27 – Andrew Bell, educationalist and founder of Madras College (b. 1753)
• 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 Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia (b. 1773)
• April 18 – Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter (b. 1761)
• May 13 – Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (b. 1769)
• 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 21 – Princess 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 von Zach, Austrian scientific editor and astronomer (b. 1754)
• September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
• November 12 – Henry Eckford, Scottish-born American shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer, and entrepreneur (b. 1775)
• 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)