Famous birthdays, deaths and events of 1832
Birthdays
- January 4 - George Tryon, British admiral (d. 1893)
- January 6 - Gustave Doré, French painter and sculptor (d. 1883)
- January 7 - James Munro, Premier of Victoria (d. 1908)
- January 9 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist
- January 13 - Horatio Alger, Jr.
- January 17 - Henry Martyn Baird, American educationalist (d. 1906)
- January 19 - Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (d. 1875)
- January 23 - Edouard Manet, French artist (d. 1883)
- January 26 - George Shiras Jr., U.S. Supreme Court justice (d. 1924)
- January 27 - Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
- January 30 - Infanta Luisa Fernanda, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
- February 6 - John Brown Gordon, general
- March 12 - Charles Boycott, British land agent and originator of the term to boycott (d. 1897)
- April 5 - Jules Ferry, French statesman (d. 1893)
- April 13 - Juan Montalvo, Ecuadoran author (d. 1889)
- April 15 - Wilhelm Busch, German poet (d. 1908)
- April 19 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer
- April 22 - Julius Sterling Morton, Arbor Day founder (d. 1902
- May 5 - H.H. Bancroft, American historian and publisher (d. 1918)
- May 14 - Rudolf Lipschitz, German mathematician (d. 1903)
- May 21 - Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (d. 1917)
- June 3 - Alexandre Charles Lecocq, French composer (d. 1918)
- June 14 - Nikolaus Otto, German engineer (d. 1891)
- June 17 - Sir William Crookes, English physicist and chemist (d. 1919)
- July 10 - Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1897)
- July 11 - Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician (d. 1896)
- August 3 - Ivan Zajc, Croatian composer (d. 1914)
- August 16 - Wilhelm Wundt, German psychologist (d. 1920)
- September 4 - Antonio Agliardi, Italian diplomat (d. 1915)
- October 2 - Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917)
- October 20 - Constantin Lipsius, German architect (d. 1894)
- November 7 - Andrew Dickson White, American educator (d. 1918)
- November 9 - Émile Gaboriau, French writer (d. 1873)
- November 18 - Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Swedish explorer (d. 1901)
- November 26 - Mary Edwards Walker, American feminist physician (d. 1919)
- November 26 - Karl Rudolf König, German physicist (d. 1901)
- December 8 - Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author and Nobel laureate (d. 1910)
- December 15 - Gustave Eiffel, French engineer and architect (Eiffel tower) (d. 1923)
- December 21 - John H. Ketcham, American politician (d. 1906)
- December 27 - Pavel Tretyakov, Russian businessman and patron of art (d. 1897)
Deaths
- January 13 - Thomas Lord, English cricketer
- January 28 - Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (b. 1769)
- February 1 - Archibald Murphey, North Carolina politician (b. 1777)
- February 3 - George Crabbe, English naturalist (b. 1754)
- March 4 - Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790)
- March 10 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (b. 1752)
- March 12 - Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (b. 1786)
- March 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)
- May 13 - Georges Cuvier, French naturalist (b. 1769)
- May 31 - Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)
- June 6 - Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)
- June 23 - James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
- July 22 - Napoleon II of France, (b. 1811)
- August 24 - Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French mathematician (b. 1796)
- September 2 - Franz Xaver, Baron Von Zach
- September 21 - Sir Walter Scott, Scottish writer (b. 1771)
- September 27 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (b. 1781)
- November 14 - Charles Carroll of Carrollton, American statesman (b. 1737)
Events
- January 13 - President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
- February 12 - Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
- March 12 - The ballet La Sylphide first premieres at the Opéra de Paris.
- March 24 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..
- April 6 - Indian Wars: The Black Hawk War begins
- April 8 - Black Hawk War: Around three-hundred United States 6th Infantry troops leave St. Louis, Missouri to fight the Sauk Native Americans.
- April 29 - Évariste Galois released from prison.
- May 7 - The independence of Greece is recognized by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
- May 24 - The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
- May 30 - The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened.
- June 6 - The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end.
- June 7 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
- July 10 - U.S.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.
- August 1 - The Black Hawk War ends.
- December 28 - John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.
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