Events of 1832

January–June

• 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 3,000 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..

Hambacher Fest.

• 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; the Treaty of Constantinople ends the Greek War of Independence in July.

• May 10 – The Egyptians, aided by Maronites, seize Acre from the Ottoman Empire after a 7-month siege.

• May 30

• * Germany: Hambacher Fest, a demonstration for civil liberties and national unity ends with no result.

• * Canada: The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario is first opened.

• June 5 – France: June Rebellion, Anti-monarchist riots briefly break out in Paris.

• June 6 – The barricades fall and the Student Uprisings of 1832 end.

• June 7 – The Reform Act 1832 becomes law in Britain.

July–December

• July 4 – The University of Durham is founded by an 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.

• November 14 – Charles Carroll, the last surviving signer of the Declaration of Independence dies at his home in Maryland at age 95.

• December 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1832: Andrew Jackson is re-elected president.

• 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 – The Battle of Antwerp ends with the Netherlands losing the city.

Undated

• George Catlin starts to live among the Sioux in the Dakota Territory.

• William Howley Archbishop of Canterbury has his coach attacked by an angry mob on his first official visit to Canterbury.

Births

January–June

• 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 5 – Jules Ferry, French premier, (d. 1893)

• 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)

July–December

• July 6 – Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico (d. 1867)

• July 11 – Charilaos Trikoupis, 7-time Prime Minister of Greece (d. 1896)

• October 1 – Caroline Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison (d. 1892)

• October 2 – Edward Burnett Tylor, English anthropologist (d. 1917)

• October 10 – Joe Cain, American parade organizer for Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama (d. 1904)

• October 29 – Narcisa de Jesús Martillo, an Ecuadorian saint (d. 1869)

• August 8 – King Georg I of Saxony (d. 1904)

• November 7 – Andrew Dickson White, American historian, diplomat, and co-founder of Cornell University (d. 1918)

• November 28 – Leslie Stephen, English writer and critic (d. 1904)

• November 29 – Louisa May Alcott, American author (d. 1888)

• December 8 – Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Norwegian author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1910)

• December 13 – Alexander Milton Ross, Canadian abolitionist(d. 1897)

• December 15 – Gustave Eiffel, French engineer (d. 1923)

• December 21 – John H. Ketcham, American politician (d. 1906)

Deaths

January–June

• February 3 – George Crabbe, poet and naturalist (b. 1754)

• March 4 – Jean-François Champollion, French Egyptologist (b. 1790)

• March 10 – Muzio Clementi, Italian composer and pianist (b. 1752)

• March 22 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)

• March 29 – Maria Teresa of Austria-Este, queen consort of Piedmont-Sardinia (b. 1773)

• May 13 – Georges Cuvier, French zoologist (b. 1769)

• May 31 – Évariste Galois, French mathematician (b. 1811)

• June 5 – Ka'ahumanu, queen consort of Hawaii (b. 1768)

• June 6 – Jeremy Bentham, English philosopher (b. 1748)

• June 21 – Landgravine Amalie of Hesse-Darmstadt (b. 1754)

• June 23 – James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)

July–December

• 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, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and U.S. Senator (b. 1737)

• November 15 – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist, originator of Say's Law (b. 1767)

• December 18 – Philip Morin Freneau, poet and journalist (b. 1752)