1832

For the board game, see 1832 (board game).

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1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar).

Events

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..

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 next 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.

July 4 - The University of Durham is founded by act of parliament and given royal assent by King William IV.

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.

January 6 - Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (died 1883)
January 13 - Horatio Alger, Jr., American Unitarian minister and author (died 1899)
January 23 - Edouard Manet, French painter (died 1883)
January 27 - Lewis Carroll, English author (died 1898)
April 19 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1916)
May 14 - Charles Peace, British criminal (died 1879)
May 21 - James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (died 1905)
May 28 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville and theater impresario (died 1908)
June 17 - Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (died 1919)
July 6 - Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (died 1867)
July 11 - Charilaos Trikoupis, 7-time Prime Minister of Greece (died 1896)
October 2 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (died 1917)
August 8 - King Georg I of Saxony (died 1904)
November 29 - Louisa May Alcott, American author (died 1888)
December 8 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1910)
December 15 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (died 1923)

March 4 - Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist (born 1790)
March 10 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (born 1752)
March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (born 1749)
May 13 - Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (born 1769)
May 31 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (born 1811)
June 6 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (born 1748)
June 23 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (born 1761)
July 22 - Napoleon II of France (born 1811)
September 2 - Franz Xaver, Baron von Zach, Austrian scientific editor and astronomer (born 1754)
September 21 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (born 1771)
November 14 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Declaration of Independence signer and U.S. Senator (born 1737)