1732

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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).

Contents

Events of

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of

January - June

★ February 23 - First performance of Handel's ''Orlando'', in London

★ June 9 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. [1]

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 are eventually triumphant over the Crown, and secure their recall in December.

★ Cobalt is discovered and isolated by Georg Brandt.

★ Secession Church 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 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 .''

Deaths

★ January 12 - John Horsley, British archaeologist (born c.1685)

★ February 13 - Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (born 1640)

★ February 17 - Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (born 1669)

★ February 22 - Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (born 1663)

★ March 20 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (born 1681)

★ May 20 - Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (born 1676)

★ July 16 - Woodes Rogers, English privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (born c.1679)

★ September 24 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (born 1654)

★ October 31 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (born 1666)

★ December 4 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter, calligrapher, encyclopedist, foreign diplomat to Japan (born 1669)
: ''See also .''