Editing 1732 (section)

===October&ndash;December===
* [[October 7]] &ndash; French Army Lieutenant General [[Florent-Jean de Vallière]] is tasked by [[Louis XV of France|King Louis XV]] to improve France's method of forging cannons.
* [[October 16]] &ndash; Russia approves the second Kamchatka expedition of Danish-born Russian cartographer [[Vitus Bering]], and the Admiralty orders him to sail east and try to claim uncharted lands in North America.
* [[November 29]] &ndash; The magnitude 6.6 [[1732 Irpinia earthquake|Irpinia earthquake]] causes {{formatnum:1940}} deaths in the former [[Kingdom of Naples]].
* [[December 5]] &ndash; 139 members of the [[Parlement of Paris]], exiled by order of King [[Louis XV of France|Louis XV]], secure their recall. <ref>B. Robert Kreiser, ''Miracles, Convulsions, and Ecclesiastical Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris'' (Princeton University Press, 2015) p240</ref>
* [[December 7]] &ndash; The original Theatre Royal, [[Covent Garden]], London (the modern-day [[Royal Opera House]]) is opened.
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Franklin]], in the ''Pennsylvania Gazette'', first advertises the publication of ''[[Poor Richard's Almanack]]'', purportedly written by "Richard Saunders", a pen name used by Franklin. <ref>Benjamin Franklin, ''The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin'', ed. by John Bigelow (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889) (editor's note, p170) </ref>  The book goes on sale on December 28.  <ref>"Poor Richard's Almanac", by William Pencak, in ''A Companion to Benjamin Franklin'', by David Waldstreicher (Wiley, 2011)</ref>  The annual publication will continue until 1758.