Notable Historical Events - 1832
1832 Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
Jan 2 |
1st Curling club in US (Orchard Lake Curling Club) opens |
Jan 4 |
Insurrection of Trinidad negroes |
Jan 6 |
New England Anti-Slavery Society organizes (Boston) |
Jan 16 |
Charles Darwin lands at San Tiago, Cape Verde |
Jan 17 |
Johannes van den Bosch appointed gov-gen of Dutch-Indies |
Feb 6 |
1st appearance of cholera in Edinburgh, Scotland |
Feb 6 |
US ship destroys Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy |
Feb 12 |
Ecuador annexes Galapagos Islands |
Feb 13 |
1st appearance of cholera in London |
Feb 16 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches St-Pauls (1°N, 29°W) |
Feb 20 |
Charles Darwin visits Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean |
Feb 26 |
Polish constitution abolished/replaced by Tsar Nicholas I |
Feb 29 |
Charles Darwin visits jungle near Bahia Brazil |
Mar 12 |
The ballet La Sylphide first premieres at the Opéra de Paris. |
Mar 23 |
British Parliament passes reform bill |
Mar 24 |
Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio |
Apr 4 |
Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reaches Rio de Janeiro |
Apr 8 |
Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro |
May 7 |
Greece becomes independent |
May 7 |
Otto of Bavaria is chosen king of Greece |
May 12 |
Gaetano Donizetti's opera "L'elisir d'amore" premieres in Milan |
May 14 |
Felix Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" premieres |
May 21 |
1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore) |
May 24 |
The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference. |
May 30 |
Evariste Galois give his theory on free assembly (dies in duel May 31) |
May 30 |
The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is opened. |
Jun 4 |
3rd national black convention meets (Phila) |
Jun 6 |
The barricades fall and the Paris student uprisings of 1832 end. |
Jun 7 |
Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada. |
Jun 16 |
Battle of Kellogg's Grove, Illinois |
Jun 22 |
John Howe patents pin manufacturing machine |
Jun 28 |
Gerrit Moll measures noise of guns |
Jul 5 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de Janeiro |
Jul 10 |
President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US |
Jul 13 |
Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft) |
Jul 14 |
Opium exempted from federal tariff duty |
Jul 24 |
Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass. |
Jul 25 |
1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies |
Jul 26 |
HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo |
Aug 1 |
The Black Hawk War ends. |
Aug 2 |
Battle of Bad Axe, Wisconsin: 1,300 Illinois militia defeat Sauk & Fox Native Americans ending the Black Hawk War in the US |
Aug 15 |
Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism & religious indifferentism |
Aug 27 |
Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up |
Sep 3 |
Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname |
Nov 14 |
First streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12 cents rode on 4th Avenue between Prince and 14th Sts |
Nov 15 |
Felix Mendelssohn's "Reformation" premieres |
Nov 23 |
French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium |
Nov 24 |
South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification |
Nov 26 |
1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12 cent fare) |
Dec 4 |
French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp |
Dec 5 |
Andrew Jackson re-elected President of US |
Dec 17 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails in Strait Le Maire |
Dec 18 |
Charles Darwins visits Vurland |
Dec 22 |
HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands |
Dec 23 |
Dutch troops in Antwerp surrender |
Dec 24 |
1st US Negro hospital founded by whites chartered, Savannah, Georgia |
Dec 24 |
HMS Beagle anchors in Wigwam Bay at Cape Receiver |
Dec 25 |
Charles Darwin celebrates Christmas in St Martin at Cape Receiver |
Dec 28 |
John C. Calhoun becomes 1st VP to resign (differences with President Jackson) |
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