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

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For the game, see 1832 (board game).

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).

[edit] Events of 1832

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 3,000 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..

Hambacher Fest.

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; the Treaty of Constantinople ends the Greek War of Independence in July.
May 27 - The Egyptians, aided by Maronites, seize Acre from the Ottoman Empire after a 7-month siege.
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 first opened.
June 5 - France: Anti-monarchist riots briefly break out in Paris.
June 6 - The barricades fall and the Student Uprisings of 1832 end.
June 7 - The Reform Act 1832 becomes law in Britain.

July 4 - The University of Durham is founded by an 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 19 - Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity is founded at Hamilton College.
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 Battle of Antwerp ends with the Netherlands losing the city.

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 5 - Jules Ferry, French premier, (d. 1893)
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 theater impresario (d. 1908)
June 17 - Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (d. 1919)

February 3 - George Crabbe, poet and naturalist (b. 1754)
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)
March 29 - Maria Teresa of Austria-Este, queen consort of Piedmont-Sardinia (b. 1773)
May 13 - Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (b. 1769)
May 31 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
June 5 - Ka'ahumanu, queen consort of Hawaii (b. 1768)
June 6 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
June 21 - Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1754)
June 23 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)

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