1832

June 7: The Great Reform Act is passed by the British Parliament after long debate, changing the electoral process in England and Wales.The House of Commons, 1833 by George Hayter

November 24: U.S. state of South Carolina begins Nullification Crisis by asserting power to nullify U.S. government laws.

1832 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1832 MDCCCXXXII
Ab urbe condita	2585
Armenian calendar	1281 ԹՎ ՌՄՁԱ
Assyrian calendar	6582
Balinese saka calendar	1753–1754
Bengali calendar	1238–1239
Berber calendar	2782
British Regnal year	2 Will. 4 – 3 Will. 4
Buddhist calendar	2376
Burmese calendar	1194
Byzantine calendar	7340–7341
Chinese calendar	辛卯年 (Metal Rabbit) 4529 or 4322     — to — 壬辰年 (Water Dragon) 4530 or 4323
Coptic calendar	1548–1549
Discordian calendar	2998
Ethiopian calendar	1824–1825
Hebrew calendar	5592–5593
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1888–1889
- Shaka Samvat	1753–1754
- Kali Yuga	4932–4933
Holocene calendar	11832
Igbo calendar	832–833
Iranian calendar	1210–1211
Islamic calendar	1247–1248
Japanese calendar	Tenpō 3 (天保３年)
Javanese calendar	1759–1760
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 12 days
Korean calendar	4165
Minguo calendar	80 before ROC 民前80年
Nanakshahi calendar	364
Thai solar calendar	2374–2375
Tibetan calendar	ལྕགས་མོ་ཡོས་ལོ་ (female Iron-Hare) 1958 or 1577 or 805     — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Water-Dragon) 1959 or 1578 or 806

May 27: start of the Hambach Festival

1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1832nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 832nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 32nd year of the 19th century, and the 3rd year of the 1830s decade. As of the start of 1832, the Gregorian calendar was 12 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–March

• January 6 – Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds the New-England Anti-Slavery Society.
• January 13 – The Christmas Rebellion of slaves is brought to an end in Jamaica, after the island's white planters organize militias and the British Army sends companies of the 84th regiment to enforce martial law. More than 300 of the slave rebels will be publicly hanged for their part in the destruction.
• February 6 – The Swan River Colony is renamed Western Australia.
• February 9 – The Florida Legislative Council grants a city charter for Jacksonville, Florida.
• February 12
  • Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
  • A cholera epidemic in London claims at least 3,000 lives; the contagion spreads to France and North America later this year.
• February 26 — Frédéric Chopin made his highly anticipated Paris debut on at the Salle Pleyel. The concert featured his own Piano Concerto in E Minor and Variations on 'Là ci darem la mano', and was attended by the city's musical and cultural elite, including Franz Liszt and Felix Mendelssohn. The concert would catapult him as one of the most popular composers in not only Paris but all of Europe.
• February 28 – Charles Darwin and the crew of HMS Beagle arrive at South America for the first time.
• March 24 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.

April–June

• April 6 – The Black Hawk War begins in the United States.
• 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 10 – The Egyptians, aided by Maronites, seize Acre from the Ottoman Empire after a 7-month siege.
• May 11 – Greece is recognized as a sovereign nation; the Treaty of Constantinople ends the Greek War of Independence in July.
• May 16 – Juan Godoy discovers the rich silver outcrops of Chañarcillo sparking the Chilean silver rush.
• May 30
  • The Hambacher Fest, a demonstration for civil liberties and national unity in Germany, ends with no result.
  • The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario (Canada) is opened.
• June 5–6 – The June Rebellion in France, anti-monarchist riots led chiefly by local students and workers, breaks out in Paris.
• June 7 – The Reform Act receives royal assent after passage by the British Parliament, reforming the electoral system and setting uniform law for voting rights in England and Wales, though not in Scotland or Ireland.
• June 9 – The Strasburg Rail Road is incorporated by the Pennsylvania State Legislature, making it the oldest continuously operating railroad in the Western Hemisphere.

July–September

• July 1 – Global conglomerate Jardine Matheson is founded in Canton (modern day Guangzhou) in Qing dynasty China by Scottish merchants.
• July 2 – André-Michel Guerry presents his Essay on moral statistics of France to the French Academy of Sciences, a significant step in the founding of empirical social science.
• July 4 – Durham University is founded in the north of England by an act of Parliament given royal assent by King William IV.
• July 9 – The Commissioner of Indian Affairs post is created within the United States Department of War.
• July 10 – The United States Survey of the Coast is revived within the Department of the Treasury.
• August 2 – The Bad Axe Massacre ends the last major Native American rebellion east of the Mississippi in the United States.
• August 7 – William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, has his coach attacked by an angry mob on his first official visit to Canterbury because of his opposition to the Reform Act in the United Kingdom.
• August 9 – Leopold I of Belgium marries the daughter of the French king Louise of Orléans in a dynastic marriage at the Château de Compiègne
• August 27 – Black Hawk (Sauk leader) surrenders to the United States authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
• September 22 – Qasim al-Ahmad is appointed as the new Ottoman Governor (mutasallim) of Jerusalem (Kudüs), after Sultan Mahmud II dismisses Muhammad Said Agha.

October–December

• October 4 – Prince Otto of Bavaria, the second oldest son of King Ludwig I, is selected by Europe's major powers to become Othon, the first King of Greece, after the Hellenic nation's reacquisition of independence.
• October 20 – Principal Chief Levi Colbert (Itawamba Mingo) and other leaders of the Chickasaw Nation of American Indians sign the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek with the United States, ceding their remaining 9,400 square miles of land to the U.S., in return for a promise that they will receive all proceeds of sales of the land by the federal government to private owners, along with expenses for relocation and food and supplies for one year. The area ceded includes the entire northern one-sixth of the state of Mississippi.
• October 29 - Alpha Delta Phi, the sixth-oldest college fraternity, is founded as a literary society by Samuel Eells at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.
• November 21 – Wabash College, a small, private, liberal arts college for men, is founded.
• November 24 – Nullification Crisis: The U.S. state of South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, challenging the power of the U.S. federal government, by declaring that it will not enforce national tariffs signed into law in 1828 and 1832.
• December 3 – 1832 United States presidential election: Andrew Jackson is re-elected president.
• December 4 – Siege of Antwerp: The last remaining Dutch stronghold, Antwerp Citadel, comes under French attack in the aftermath of the Belgian Revolution.
• December 10 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson responds to the Nullification Crisis by threatening to send the U.S. Army and Navy into South Carolina if it does not comply.
• December 21 – Battle of Konya: The Egyptians defeat the main Ottoman army in central Anatolia.
• December 23 – The Siege of Antwerp ends with the Dutch garrison losing the citadel.
• December 28 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.

Date unknown

• George Catlin starts to live among the Sioux in the Dakota Territory.
• The first Baedeker guidebook, Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne, is published in Koblenz.
• Publication begins (posthumously) of Carl von Clausewitz's Vom Kriege ("On War").
• The City of Buffalo in New York is incorporated.
• The Cumberland and Oxford Canal connects the largest lakes of southern Maine with the seaport of Portland, Maine.
• Global watch brand Longines is founded in Switzerland.
• The first commutator DC electric motor, capable of turning machinery, is demonstrated by William Sturgeon in London.
• A local guide working for British explorer B. H. Hodgson during a Himalayan expedition claimed to have spotted a large bipedal creature running away in fear. It would become the first sighting of the so-called Yeti.

Births

January–February

Édouard Manet

T. Muthuswamy Iyer

• January 1
  • Tom Jeffords, US Army scout and Indian agent (d. 1914)
  • Charles N. Felton, American banker and politician (d. 1914)
• January 4
  • Sir George Tryon, British admiral (d. 1893)
  • Antoine Chanzy, French general and governor of Algeria (d. 1883)
• January 6 – Gustave Doré, French painter, sculptor (d. 1883)
• January 13 – Horatio Alger, Jr., American Unitarian minister, author (d. 1899)
• January 21 – Carl Hubert von Wendt, German landowner and politician (d. 1903)
• January 22 – Alonzo B. Cornell, 27th Governor of New York (d. 1904)
• January 23
  • Édouard Manet, French painter (d. 1883)
  • Charlotte Pousette, Swedish stage actress (d. 1877)
• January 24
  • Joseph Hodges Choate, American lawyer and diplomat (d. 1917)
  • Albert Arnz, German landscape painter (d. 1914)
• January 25
  • Ivan Shishkin, Russian landscape painter (d. 1898)
  • Paul Bronsart von Schellendorff, Prussian general and writer (d. 1891)
• January 26 – George Shiras Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1924)
• January 27 – Lewis Carroll, English author (d. 1898)
• January 28 – Sir Charles Gough, British general, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1912)
• January 28
  • T. Muthuswamy Iyer, Lawyer, first Indian Judge of the Madras high court (d. 1895)
  • Franz Wüllner, German composer and conductor (d. 1902)
• January 29 – Wilhelm Böckmann, German architect (d. 1902)
• January 30 – Infanta Luisa Fernanda of Spain, Duchess of Montpensier (d. 1897)
• February 6 – John B. Gordon, attorney, slaveholding planter, general in the Confederate States Army, and politician (d. 1904)
• February 9 – Adele Spitzeder, German actress, folk singer and confidence trickster (d. 1895)
• February 18 – Octave Chanute, French-American engineer, aviation pioneer (d. 1910)
• February 21 – Louis Maurer, German-American lithographer, and the father of painter Alfred Henry Maurer (d. 1932)
• February 26 – John George Nicolay, German-American author, diplomat, and private secretary to Abraham Lincoln (d. 1901)

March–April

Wilhelm Busch

Lucretia Garfield

• March 4 – Samuel Colman, American painter, interior designer, and writer (d. 1920)
• March 7 – Carl Neumann, German mathematician (d. 1925)
• March 10 –