1832

This page is about the year 1832. For the board game, see 1832.

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

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.

July 9 - Republic of Indian Stream comes into its brief existence (until 1835, in present-day New Hampshire, USA).

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 22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)
May 13 - Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (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)
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)

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