1832

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

Events

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 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 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.
June 5 - France: anti-monarchist riot briefly breaks out in Paris.
June 15 - Seizure of Damascus by Egyptian forces.
July 9 - Republic of Indian Stream comes into its brief existence (until 1835, in present-day New Hampshire, USA).
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 looses Antwerp.

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 28 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville and theater impresario (d. 1908)
June 17 - Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (d. 1919)
July 6 - Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (d. 1867)
October 2 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917)
August 8 - King Georg I of Saxony (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)

March 4 - Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist (b. 1790)
March 10 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (b. 1752)
March 13 - Samuel Eells, Founder of Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity (b. 1810)
March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)
May 13 - Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (b. 1769)
June 6 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
June 23 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
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, Declaration of Independence signer and U.S. Senator (b. 1737)