Editing 1832 (section)

== Events ==

=== January–March ===
* [[January 6]] – Abolitionist [[William Lloyd Garrison]] founds the [[New-England Anti-Slavery Society]]. 
* [[January 13]] – The [[Baptist war|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.<ref>{{cite book|first=Andre C.|last=Drainville|title=A History of World Order and Resistance: The Making and Unmaking of Global Subjects|publisher=Routledge|year=2013}}</ref>
* [[February 6]] – The [[Swan River Colony]] is renamed [[Western Australia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://poi-australia.com.au/swan-river-colony-proclaimed/|title=Swan River Colony Proclaimed|date=May 2, 1829|publisher=POI Australia|language=English|accessdate=13 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://statelibrarynsw.tumblr.com/post/156855938896/on-this-day-6th-february-1832-the-swan-river|title=On this day, 6th February 1832|publisher=State Library of New South Wales|language=English|accessdate=13 February 2021}}</ref>
* [[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.<!-- maybe also other countries, but these were the only ones mentioned in different places in this article -->
* [[February 28]] – [[Charles Darwin]] and the crew of {{HMS|Beagle}} arrive at [[South America]] for the first time.<ref>{{cite book|first1=Adrian|last1=Desmond|first2=James|last2=Moore|title=Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist|publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|year=1994|page=119}}</ref>
* [[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, 1832|Treaty of London]] creates an independent [[Kingdom of Greece (Wittelsbach)|Kingdom of Greece]]. [[Otto 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, Israel|Acre]] from the [[Ottoman Empire]] after a 7-month [[siege]].
* [[May 11]] – Greece is recognized as a sovereign nation; the [[Treaty of Constantinople (1832)|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]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Mitos de Chile: Enciclopedia de seres, apariciones y encantos|last=Montecino Aguirre|first=Sonia|publisher=[[Catalonia (publisher)|Catalonia]] |year=2015|isbn=978-956-324-375-8 |pages=47–48|chapter=Alicanto |language=es}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Historia de Chile|language=es|trans-title=History of Chile|editor1-last=Villalobos Rivera|editor1-first=Sergio|editor-link1=Sergio Villalobos|editor2-last=Silva G.|editor2-first=Osvaldo|editor-link2=Osvaldo Silva|editor3-last=Silva V.|editor3-first=Fernando|editor4-last=Patricio|editor4-first=Estelle M.|year=1995|orig-year=1974|publisher=[[Editorial Universitaria]]|location=[[Santiago de Chile]]|pages=469–472}}</ref>
* [[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]]–[[June 6|6]] – The [[June Rebellion]] in France, anti-[[monarchist]] riots led chiefly by students, breaks out in [[Paris]].
* [[June 7]] – The [[Reform Act 1832|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 (company)|conglomerate]] [[Jardine Matheson]] is founded in Canton (modern day [[Guangzhou]]) in [[Qing dynasty]] China by Scottish merchants.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jardines.com/the-group/history/1830-1869.html|title=Early Trading Years 1830–1869|access-date=2021-01-10|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110626110209/http://www.jardines.com/the-group/history/1870-1899.html|publisher=Jardines|archive-date=2011-06-26|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[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 Coast and Geodetic Survey|United States Survey of the Coast]] is revived within the [[United States Department of the Treasury|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.<ref>{{cite book|first=Judith Mendelsohn|last=Rood|title=Sacred Law In The Holy City: The Khedival Challenge To The Ottomans As Seen From Jerusalem, 1829-1841|publisher=Brill|year=2004|page=92}}</ref>

=== October–December ===
* [[October 4]] – [[Otto of Greece|Prince Otto of Bavaria]], the second oldest son of [[Ludwig I of Bavaria|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.<ref>{{cite book|first=Carl|last=Schmitt|title=Constitutional Theory|publisher=Duke University Press|year=2008|page=396}}</ref>
* [[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.<ref>{{cite book| first=Westley F. Jr. |last=Busbee|title=Mississippi: A History|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|year=2014|page=84}}</ref>
* [[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 (1832)|Siege of Antwerp]]: The last remaining [[Netherlands|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.<ref>{{cite book|editor=Smith, Courtney|title=American History through its Greatest Speeches: A Documentary History of the United States|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2016|page=32}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] – [[Battle of Konya]]: The [[Egypt]]ians defeat the main [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] army in central [[Anatolia]].
* [[December 23]] – The [[Siege of Antwerp (1832)|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 [[Buffalo, New York|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]].<ref>{{cite book|title=My First Sixty Years in Harrison, Maine|last=Ward|first=Ernest E.|publisher=Cardinal Printing|year=1967|page=7}}</ref>
* Global [[watch]] brand [[Longines]] is founded in [[Switzerland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.longines.com/company/history/19th/1832|title=1832|work=History|publisher=Longines|access-date=2021-01-10}}</ref>
* The first commutator DC [[electric motor]], capable of turning machinery, is demonstrated by [[William Sturgeon]] in London.