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1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was
a leap year starting on
Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and
a leap year
starting on Friday 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. As of
the start of 1832, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian
calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] January–March[edit] ·
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. [1] ·
February 9 – The Florida Legislative Council grants a
city charter for Jacksonville,
Florida. ·
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. ·
February 28 – Charles Darwin and the crew of HMS Beagle arrive at South America for the first time. [2] ·
March 24 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith. April–June[edit] ·
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 first ascent.[3] ·
May 30 ·
Germany:
The Hambacher Fest,
a demonstration for civil liberties and national unity,
ends with no result. Hambacher Fest. ·
Canada:
The Rideau Canal in
eastern Ontario is opened. ·
June 5–6 – France: The June Rebellion, anti-monarchist riots led chiefly by
students, breaks out in Paris. ·
June 7 – The Reform Act becomes law in the United
Kingdom. ·
June 9 – The Strasburg Rail Road was
incorporated by the Pennsylvania State Legislature. Today, it continues as
the oldest continuously operating railroad in the Western Hemisphere. July–September[edit] ·
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 17 – China ceases production of
iron shuriken.[citation needed] ·
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 (mutasallim)
of Jerusalem (Kudüs), after Sultan Mahmud II dismisses Muhammad Said
Agha. [4] October–December[edit] ·
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. [5] ·
October 20 – Principal Chief Levi Colbert (Itawamba Mingo)
and other leaders of the Chickasaw Nation of American Indians
sign the Pontotoc Creek Treaty 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. [6] ·
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. ·
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 – U.S.
presidential election, 1832: Andrew Jackson is re-elected president. ·
December 4 – Battle of Antwerp:
The last remaining Dutch stronghold, Antwerp Citadel, comes under French attack. ·
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. [7] ·
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[edit] ·
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 (posthumously) of Carl von Clausewitz's Vom
Kriege ("On War"). ·
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.[8] Births[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 4 – George Tryon, British admiral (d. 1893) ·
January 6 – Gustave Doré, French painter, sculptor
(d. 1883) ·
January 13 – Horatio Alger, Jr.,
American Unitarian minister, author (d. 1899) ·
January 23 – Édouard Manet, French painter (d. 1883) ·
January 26 – George Shiras Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1924) ·
January 27 – Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898) ·
January 28 – Charles John
Stanley Gough, British general, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1912) ·
February 18 – Octave Chanute, French-American engineer,
aviation pioneer (d. 1910) ·
March 12 – Charles Friedel, French chemist,
mineralogist (d. 1889) ·
April 3 – James Sewall Reed,
American soldier (d. 1864) ·
April 5 – Jules Ferry, French premier (d. 1893) ·
April 8 – Howell Edmunds
Jackson, American politician, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United
States (d. 1895) ·
April 15 ·
Wilhelm Busch, German humorist, poet,
illustrator and painter (d. 1908) ·
John Irwin,
American admiral (d. 1901) ·
April 19 ·
José Echegaray,
Spanish writer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1916) ·
Lucretia Garfield, First
Lady of the United States (d. 1918) ·
May 14 – Charles Peace, English criminal (d. 1879) ·
May 21 – Hudson Taylor, English founder of the China Inland Mission (d. 1905) ·
May 22 – Laura Gundersen, Norwegian actor (d. 1898) ·
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, physicist
(d. 1919) ·
June 18 – Jonathan, Saint Helena tortoise (still alive as
of 2015) July–December[edit] ·
July 6 – Emperor Maximilian I of
Mexico (d. 1867) ·
July 11 – Charilaos Trikoupis,
7-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) ·
September 26 – Joanna P. Moore, American Baptist missionary
and educator (d. 1916) ·
September 26 – Zsófia Torma, Hungarian archaeologist,
anthropologist and paleontologist (d. 1899) ·
September 29 – Joachim Oppenheim,
Austrian (Czech) rabbi, author (d. 1891) ·
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, lay hermit, sainted (d. 1869) ·
August 8 – George, King of
Saxony (d. 1904) ·
November 1 – Gyula Szapáry, 10th Prime Minister of
Hungary (d. 1905) ·
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 26 – Mary Edwards Walker,
American physician (d. 1919) ·
November 28 – Leslie Stephen, English writer, 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 14 – Ana Betancourt, Cuban national heroine
(d. 1901) ·
December 15 – Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (d. 1923) ·
December 21 – John H. Ketcham, American politician
(d. 1906) Deaths[edit] January–June[edit] ·
January 26 – Alexander Cochrane,
British admiral (b. 1758) ·
January 27 – Andrew Bell,
Scottish educationalist, founder of Madras College, India (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 3 – Jean
Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, Prime Minister of France
(b. 1778) ·
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 10 – Joseph Hiester, American politician
(b. 1752) ·
June 21 – Princess
Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1754) ·
June 23 – James Hall,
Scottish geologist (b. 1761) July–December[edit] ·
July 22 – Napoleon II of
France (b. 1811) ·
August 24 – Nicolas
Léonard Sadi Carnot, French military engineer and physicist
(b. 1796) ·
September 2 – Franz Xaver von Zach,
Austrian scientific editor and astronomer (b. 1754) ·
September 21 – Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771) ·
September 27 – Karl
Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (b. 1781) ·
November 8 – Marie-Jeanne de
Lalande, French astronomer and mathematician (b. 1768) ·
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) ·
undated – Birgithe Kühle,
Norwegian journalist (b. 1762) References[edit] 1.
^ Andre C. Drainville, A History of World Order
and Resistance: The Making and Unmaking of Global Subjects (Routledge,
2013) 2.
^ Adrian Desmond and James Moore, Darwin: The Life
of a Tormented Evolutionist (W. W. Norton & Company, 1994) p119 3.
^ Recks, Robert. "Who's Who of Ballooning".
Retrieved 24 May 2012. 4.
^ Judith Mendelsohn Rood, Sacred Law In The Holy
City: The Khedival Challenge To The Ottomans As Seen From Jerusalem,
1829-1841 (BRILL, 2004) p92 5.
^ Carl Schmitt, Constitutional Theory (Duke
University Press, 2008) p396 6.
^ Westley F. Busbee, Jr., Mississippi: A History (John
Wiley & Sons, 2014) p84 7.
^ Courtney Smith, ed., American History through
its Greatest Speeches: A Documentary History of the United States (ABC-CLIO,
2016) p32 8.
^ Ward, Ernest E. (1967). My First Sixty Years in
Harrison, Maine. Cardinal Printing. p. 7. |
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