1832

Years: 1829 1830 1831 - 1832 - 1833 1834 1835
Decades: 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s
Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century 1832 in art 1832 in literature 1832 in science 1832 in music 1832 in sports List of state leaders in 1832 List of religious leaders in 1832

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

February 12 - Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands
February 12 ÃÂ serious cholera epidemic begins in London from the East London. It is declared officially over in early May but deaths continue. At least 3000 victims
March 24 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr
April 6 - 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.
May 27 - War between the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. The Egyptians, aided by Maronites, seize Acre after a seven-month siege
June 4 - The Great Reform Bill becomes law in the U.K.
June 5 - anti-monarchist riot briefly breaks out in Paris
June 15 - Seizure of Damascus by Egyptian forces
July 10 - President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.
July 24 - Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.
October 8 - Washington Irving and Henry Leavitt Elsworth arrive at Fort Gibson, I.T. in the late morning hours. They left the fort on October 10, with a small company of Rangers who escorted them to the camp of Captain Jesse Bean who was waiting for them near the Arkansas River. Thus began one of the first steps in the United States effort to remove the Indians from their homes on the east coast in what would become known as the "Trail of Tears" some six years later.
November - Andrew Jackson defeats Henry Clay in the U.S. presidential election
December - Skull and Bones secret society of Yale University established.
December 21 - Battle of Konya. The Egyptians defeat the main Ottoman army in Central Anatolia.
December 28 - John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
Cholera epidemic in France
In July and August there is a cholera epidemics in New York City

Births

January 13 - Horatio Alger, Jr, Unitarian minister, author (+ 1899)
January 23 - Edouard Manet, painter
January 27 - Lewis Carroll, author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (+ 1898)
May 14 - Charles Peace, notorious British criminal (+ 1879)
May 28 ÃÂ Tony Pastor, vaudeville founder & theater impresario (d. 1908)
June 17 - Sir William Crookes, chemist and physicist († 1919)
July 6 - Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico
August 8 - King George I of Saxony
November 29 - Louisa May Alcott, author
December 8 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author and Nobel Prize winner
December 15 - Gustave Eiffel, engineer

Deaths

March 10 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian nationalist
March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, writer and poet
May 13 - Georges Cuvier, French zoologist
June 6 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher
September 2 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach, Scientific Editor, Astronomer
September 21 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish historical novelist and poet.