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

Year 1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar).

Events of 1832

January - March

• February 9 - The Florida Legislative Council grants a city charter for Jacksonville, Florida.
• February 12 - Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands.
• February 12 – Cholera breaks out in London, claiming at least 3000 victims. It spreads to France and North America later this year.
• March 24 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..

April - June

• April 6 - USA: 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 - Treaty of Constantinople ends the Greek War of Independence in July.
• May 27 - War between the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. The Egyptians, aided by Maronites, seize Acre after a seven-month siege.
• May 30 - Germany: Hambacher Fest, a demonstration for civil liberties and national unity ends with no result.
• May 30 - Canada: the Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is first opened.
• June 5 - France: anti- monarchist riot briefly breaks out in Paris.
• June 6 - The Barricades fall and the Student Uprisings of 1832 end.
• June 7 - The Reform Act 1832 became law in Britain.

July - September

• July 4 - The University of Durham is founded by act of parliament and given royal assent by King William IV.
• September - Belvedere College, Dublin, is founded by the order of the Jesuit Society of Ireland.

October - December

• October 19 - Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity is founded at Hamilton College.
• 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 - Battle of Antwerp ended. The Netherlands loses Antwerp.

Undated

• George Catlin starts to live among the Sioux in the Dakota Territory.

Births

1832 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1832 MDCCCXXXII
Ab urbe condita	2585
Armenian calendar	1281 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԱ
Assyrian calendar	6582
Bahá'í calendar	-12–-11
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	辛卯年十一月廿九日 (4468/4528-11-29) — to — 壬辰年十一月初十日 (4469/4529-11-10)
Coptic calendar	1548–1549
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
- Ǹrí Ìgbò	832–833
Iranian calendar	1210–1211
Islamic calendar	1247–1248
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 3 (天保3年)
Juche calendar	N/A (before 1912)
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4165
Minguo calendar	80 before ROC 民前80年
Thai solar calendar	2375

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 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 the China Inland Mission (d. 1905)
• May 28 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville and theatre impresario (d. 1908)
• June 17 - Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (d. 1919)

July - December

• July 6 - Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (d. 1867)
• July 11 - Charilaos Trikoupis, 7-time Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1896)
• October 1 - Caroline Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison (d. 1892)
• October 2 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917)
• October 10 - Joe Cain, American parade organizer for Mardi 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

• 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)
• May 13 - Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (b. 1769)
• May 31 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
• June 6 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
• June 23 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)

July - December

• 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 the United States Declaration of Independence signer and U.S. Senator (b. 1737)