1732

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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

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

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.

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.

Centuries:	17th century - 18th century - 19th century
Decades:	1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s
Years:	1729 1730 1731 - 1732 - 1733 1734 1735