1832

Events of 1832

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..

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 in 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.
May 30 - Canada: the Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is first opened.
June 5 - France: anti-monarchist riot briefly breaks out in Paris.
June 6 - The Barricades fall and the Student Uprisings of 1832 end.
June 7 - The Reform Act 1832 became law in Britain.

July 4 - The University of Durham is founded by act of parliament and given royal assent by King William IV.
September - Belvedere College, Dublin, is founded by the order of the Jesuit Society of Ireland.

October 19 - Alpha Delta Phi Fraternity is founded at Hamilton College.
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 (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 21 - James Hudson Taylor, founder of the China Inland Mission (d. 1905)
May 28 - Tony Pastor, American vaudeville and theater impresario (d. 1908)
June 17 - Sir William Crookes, English chemist and physicist (d. 1919)