1732

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

1732 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1732 MDCCXXXII
Ab urbe condita	2485
Armenian calendar	1181 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԱ
Assyrian calendar	6482
Balinese saka calendar	1653–1654
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 (Metal Pig) 4429 or 4222     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4430 or 4223
Coptic calendar	1448–1449
Discordian calendar	2898
Ethiopian calendar	1724–1725
Hebrew calendar	5492–5493
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1788–1789
- Shaka Samvat	1653–1654
- Kali Yuga	4832–4833
Holocene calendar	11732
Igbo calendar	732–733
Iranian calendar	1110–1111
Islamic calendar	1144–1145
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 17 (享保１７年)
Javanese calendar	1656–1657
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4065
Minguo calendar	180 before ROC 民前180年
Nanakshahi calendar	264
Thai solar calendar	2274–2275
Tibetan calendar	阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1858 or 1477 or 705     — to — 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1859 or 1478 or 706

Herman Boerhaave publishes Elementa chemiae, considered the first text on chemistry.

1732 (MDCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1732nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 732nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 32nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1732, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Events

January–June

• January 21 – Russia and Persia sign the Treaty of Riascha at Resht. Based on the terms of the agreement, Russia will no longer establish claims over Persian territories.
• June 9 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.

July–December

• August – Mikhail Gvozdev in the Sviatoi Gavriil makes the first known crossing of the Bering Strait, from Cape Dezhnev to Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska.
• September 16 – The magnitude 5.8 Montreal earthquake occurs in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• December 7 – The original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (the modern-day Royal Opera House) is opened.
• December – 139 members of the Parlement of Paris, exiled by order of King Louis XV, secure their recall.

Date unknown

• Herman Boerhaave publishes the authorized edition of his Elementa chemiae, recognised as the first text on chemistry.
• The Republic of Genoa regains Corsica.
• The world's first lightship is moored at the Nore, in the Thames Estuary of England.
• This year's General Assembly of the Church of Scotland gives rise to the First Secession of 1733.
• Benjamin Franklin, writing under the name Richard Saunders, begins publication of Poor Richard's Almanack. The annual publication will continue until 1758.

Births

• January – Abbas III, Shah of Persia (d. 1740)
• January 17 – Stanisław August Poniatowski, last King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1798)
• January 20 – Richard Henry Lee, 12th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1794)
• January 24 – Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (d. 1799)
• February – Charles Churchill, English poet (d. 1764)
• February 6 – Charles Lee, general of the Continental Army (d. 1782)

George Washington

• February 22 – George Washington, first President of the United States (d. 1799)
• March 1 – William Cushing, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1810)

Joseph Haydn

• 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)
• April 17 – John Blair Jr., American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1800)
• June 21 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d. 1795)
• September 2 – William Crawford, American soldier and surveyor (d. 1782)
• September 26 – José de Córdoba y Ramos, Spanish explorer, naval commander (d. 1815)
• September 30 – Jacques Necker, French politician (d. 1804)
• October 6 – Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal (d. 1811)
• October 24 – Cristina Roccati, Italian scholar in physics (d. 1797)
• November 4 – Thomas Johnson, American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1819)
• November 9 – Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse, French salon holder (d. 1776)
• November 13 – John Dickinson, Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808)
• December 6 – Warren Hastings, British administrator (d. 1818)
• December 15 – Carl Gotthard Langhans, German architect (d. 1808)
• December 21 – Johann Christian Wiegleb, German chemist (d. 1800)
• December 23 – Richard Arkwright, English inventor (d. 1792)
• date unknown
  • John Julius Angerstein, Russian-born English merchant, insurer and art collector (d. 1822)
  • Francis Marion, American officer (d. 1795)

Deaths

• January 12 – John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. c.1685)
• January 22 – Louis de Sabran, British theologian (b. 1652)
• February 6 – Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wealthy Scottish peeress (b. 1651)
• February 7 – William Hiseland, English (later British) soldier, reputed supercentenarian (b. 1620)
• February 13 – Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
• February 17 – Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669)
• February 18 – Balthasar Permoser, German sculptor (b. 1651)
• February 22
  • Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
  • Marie Thérèse de Bourbon, Princess of Conti and titular queen of Poland (b. 1666)
• February 27 – Giacomo Serpotta, Italian artist (b. 1652)
• February 28 – André Charles Boulle, French cabinet-maker (b. 1642)
• March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)
• April 6 – Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg, Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order (b. 1664)
• April 28 – Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (b. 1666)
• May 20 – Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
• May 30 – John King, English churchman (b. 1652)
• May 31 – Franz Joseph Hayden, composer (b. 1658)
• July 11 – Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (b. 1659)
• July 15 – Woodes Rogers, English privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (b. c. 1679)

Emperor Reigen

• September 24 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
• October 6 – George Duckett (Calne MP), English politician (b. 1684)
• October 12 – Dionisia de Santa María Mitas Talangpaz, Filipino saint (b. 1691)
• October 25 – Andrea Brustolon, Italian artist (b. 1662)
• October 31 – Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (b. 1666)
• November 10 – Adam Christian Thebesius, German anatomist (b. 1686)
• November 20 – Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, French naval officer, governor of Newfoundland (b. 1661)
• November 21 – Jan Jansen Bleecker, Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1641)
• November 26 – Charles Sergison, English politician (b. 1655)
• December 4 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist (b. 1685)
• December 14 – Johann Philipp Förtsch, German opera composer (b. 1652)
• date unknown
  • Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter, calligrapher, encyclopedist, foreign diplomat to Japan (b. 1669)
  • Agrippina Petrovna Volkonskaia, politically active Russian lady-in-waiting