1832

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.
February 6 – The Swan River Colony is renamed Western Australia.
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 arrive at South America for the first time.
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.
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 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 receives royal assent after passage by the British Parliament, reforming the electoral system and setting uniform law for voting rights in England and Wales, though not in Scotland or Ireland.
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 in Qing dynasty China by Scottish merchants.
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 9 – Leopold I of Belgium marries the daughter of the French king Louise of Orléans in a dynastic marriage at the Château de Compiègne
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 of Jerusalem, after Sultan Mahmud II dismisses Muhammad Said Agha.

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.
October 20 – Principal Chief Levi Colbert 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.
October 29 - Alpha Delta Phi, the fifth-oldest college fraternity, is founded as a literary society by Samuel Eells at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
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 – 1832 United States presidential election: 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.
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 of Carl von Clausewitz's Vom Kriege.
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.
Global watch brand Longines is founded in Switzerland.
The first commutator DC electric motor, capable of turning machinery, is demonstrated by William Sturgeon in London.
A local guide working for British explorer B. H. Hodgson during a Himalayan expedition claimed to have spotted a large bipedal creature running away in fear. It would become the first sighting of the so-called Yeti.

Births

Unknown date

Margaret Morton Bibb, American quilter
Naimuddin, Bengali writer and Islamic scholar
Turki bin Said, former Sultan of Muscat and Oman
Nikiforos Lytras, Greek painter
James James, Welsh harpist and musician
Mary Fields, American mail carrier who was the first Black woman to be employed as a star route postwoman in the United States
Jonathan (tortoise), world's oldest living land animal.

Deaths

January–June

January 24 – Daniel Sykes, English politician
January 26 – Alexander Cochrane, British admiral
January 27 – Andrew Bell, Scottish educationalist, founder of Madras College, India
February 2 – Ignacio López Rayón, leader of the Mexican War of Independence
February 3 – George Crabbe, English poet and naturalist
March 4 – Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist
March 10 – Muzio Clementi, Italian composer and pianist
March 15 – Otto Wilhelm Masing, Estonian linguist
March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer
March 29 – Maria Theresa of Austria-Este, Queen of Sardinia
April 3 – Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, Prime Minister of France
April 12 – Shadrach Bond, American politician and the first governor of Illinois
April 18 – Jeanne-Elisabeth Chaudet, French painter
May 13 – Georges Cuvier, French zoologist
May 23 – William Grant, British lawyer, politician and judge
May 28 – Nicolas Bergasse, French lawyer
May 31 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician
June 1 – Jean Maximilien Lamarque, French general and politician
June 5 – Kaahumanu, queen consort of Hawaii
June 6 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher
June 10 – Joseph Hiester, American politician
June 21 – Princess Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt
June 23 – James Hall, Scottish geologist

July–December

July 22 – Napoleon II of France
July 31 – Edward Abbott, Australian soldier, politician and judge
August 24 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French military engineer and physicist
September 1 – Joseph Kinghorn, Particular Baptist Minister
September 2 – Franz Xaver von Zach, Austrian scientific editor and astronomer
September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish poet and novelist
September 27 – Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher
October 11 – Thomas Hardy, British political reformer
October 31 – Antonio Scarpa, Italian anatomist
November 8 – Marie-Jeanne de Lalande, French astronomer and mathematician
November 12
* Henry Eckford, Scottish-born American shipbuilder, naval architect, industrial engineer, and entrepreneur
* Barnaba Oriani, Italian priest
November 14 – Charles Carroll of Carrollton, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator
November 15 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist, originator of Say's law
December 18 – Philip Freneau, American poet and journalist
December 29 – James Hillhouse, American politician and congressman from Connecticut, 1791 until 1810 undated – Birgithe Kühle, Norwegian journalist

1832

Events

January–March

April–June

July–September

October–December

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Births

January–February

March–April

May–June

July–August

September–October

November–December

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Deaths

January–June

July–December