1732

This article is about the year 1732.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1700s  1710s  1720s  – 1730s –  1740s  1750s  1760s
Years:	1729 1730 1731 – 1732 – 1733 1734 1735

1732 by topic:

Arts and Sciences

Archaeology – Architecture – Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science

Countries

Canada – Great Britain –

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors – State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births – Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments – Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1732 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1732 MDCCXXXII
Ab urbe condita	2485
Armenian calendar	1181 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԱ
Assyrian calendar	6482
Bahá'í calendar	-112–-111
Bengali calendar	1139
Berber calendar	2682
British Regnal year	5 Geo. 2 – 6 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2276
Burmese calendar	1094
Byzantine calendar	7240–7241
Chinese calendar	辛亥年十二月初四日 (4368/4428-12-4) — to — 壬子年十一月十五日 (4369/4429-11-15)
Coptic calendar	1448–1449
Ethiopian calendar	1724–1725
Hebrew calendar	5492–5493
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1788–1789
- Shaka Samvat	1654–1655
- Kali Yuga	4833–4834
Holocene calendar	11732
Iranian calendar	1110–1111
Islamic calendar	1144–1145
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 17 (享保17年)
Korean calendar	4065
Minguo calendar	180 before ROC 民前180年
Thai solar calendar	2275

Year 1732 (MDCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the 11-day slower Julian calendar.

Events

January–June

• June 9 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.

July–December

• September 16 – The magnitude 5.8 Montreal earthquake occurs in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• December 7 – The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) is opened.

Date unknown

• Genoa regains Corsica.
• A total of 139 members of the Paris Parliament are exiled by order of the King, but eventually triumph over the Crown, and secure their recall in December.
• The United Secession Church is formed in Scotland.

Births

• January 24 – Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (d. 1799)
• February 22 – George Washington, first President of the United States (d. 1799)
• March 31 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
• April 5 – Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (d. 1806)
• April 8 – David Rittenhouse, American astronomer, inventor, mathematician, surveyor, scientific instrument craftsman, and public official. (d. 1796)
• April 13 – Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1792)
• June 21 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1795)
• September 30 – Jacques Necker, French politician (d. 1804)
• October 6 – Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal (d. 1811)
• November 13 – John Dickinson, Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
• December 6 – Warren Hastings, British administrator (d. 1818)
• December 23 – Richard Arkwright, English inventor (d. 1792)
• date unknown
  • Abbas III, Shah of Persia (d. 1740)
  • William Crawford, American soldier and surveyor (d. 1782)

Deaths

• January 12 – John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. c.1685)
• February 13 – Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
• February 17 – Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669)
• February 22 – Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
• March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)
• May 20 – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
• July 15 – Woodes Rogers, English privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (b. c. 1679)
• September 24 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
• October 31 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (b. 1666)
• December 4 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist (b. 1685)
• date unknown – Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter, calligrapher, encyclopedist, foreign diplomat to Japan (b. 1669)