1732

	1732 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature (Poetry) – Music – Science
	Countries: Canada – Great Britain –
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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

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

[edit] Events of 1732

February 23 – Handel's Orlando is first performed in London.
June 9 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. [1]

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.

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.

January 24 – Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (d. 1799)
February 11/February 22 – George Washington, 1st President of the United States, commander in the Revolutionary War, soldier in the French and Indian War (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)

See also Category: 1732 births.

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)

See also Category: 1732 deaths.