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).

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January - June

• February 23 - Handel's Orlando is first performed in London.
• June 9 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/ga01.htm

July - December

• December 7 - The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) is opened.

Undated

• 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.
• Cobalt is discovered and isolated by Georg Brandt.
• The United Secession Church is formed in Scotland.

Births

• January 24 - Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (d. 1799)
• 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.

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 16 - 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.

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