1732

1732 (MDCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1732nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 732nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 32nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1732, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium: 2nd millennium
Centuries:
Decades:
Years:
1732 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1732
MDCCXXXII
Ab urbe condita2485
Armenian calendar1181
ԹՎ ՌՃՁԱ
Assyrian calendar6482
Balinese saka calendar1653–1654
Bengali calendar1139
Berber calendar2682
British Regnal year5 Geo. 2  6 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar2276
Burmese calendar1094
Byzantine calendar7240–7241
Chinese calendar辛亥年 (Metal Pig)
4428 or 4368
     to 
壬子年 (Water Rat)
4429 or 4369
Coptic calendar1448–1449
Discordian calendar2898
Ethiopian calendar1724–1725
Hebrew calendar5492–5493
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1788–1789
 - Shaka Samvat1653–1654
 - Kali Yuga4832–4833
Holocene calendar11732
Igbo calendar732–733
Iranian calendar1110–1111
Islamic calendar1144–1145
Japanese calendarKyōhō 17
(享保17年)
Javanese calendar1656–1657
Julian calendarGregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar4065
Minguo calendar180 before ROC
民前180年
Nanakshahi calendar264
Thai solar calendar2274–2275
Tibetan calendar阴金猪年
(female Iron-Pig)
1858 or 1477 or 705
     to 
阳水鼠年
(male Water-Rat)
1859 or 1478 or 706
Herman Boerhaave publishes Elementa chemiae, considered the first text on chemistry.

Events

JanuaryMarch

AprilJune

  • April 12 King Christian VI of Denmark signs the charter for the new Danish Asia Company (Dansk Asiatisk Kompagni), granting it a 40-year monopoly on Denmark's trade in Asia, leading to the creation of Danish India and cities of Trankebar (now Tharangambadi in Tamil Nadu), Frederiknagore (now Serampore in West Bengal) and the Frederiksøerne Islands (now the Nicobar Islands).
  • April 16 After his disastrous attempt to fight the Ottoman Empire, Shah Tahmasp II is removed from the throne of Iran by one of his generals, Nader Khan, who later proclaims himself the King of Persia in Tahmasp's place as Nader Shah.
  • May 10 Representatives of the heirs of William Penn and of Lord Baltimore, the respective owners of most of the land in the Province of Pennsylvania and the Maryland Colony set out the boundary between the two future U.S. states after a survey determines that Philadelphia is located on the Maryland side of the border. The dispute eventually leads to a lawsuit and the eventual survey by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to determine the Mason–Dixon line.
  • May 13 Rebels in Corsica agree to allow the Republic of Genoa to resume its administration of the island in return for amnesty and promised reforms.
  • May 28 Dirck van Cloon becomes the new Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia).
  • June 9 James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.[5]

JulySeptember

  • July 2 Spain completes the conquest of the Algerian cities of Oran and Mers El Kébir in the Oran Province, after a 17-day siege.
  • August 16 The Order of Malta under the command of Jacques-François de Chambray defeats a convoy of the Ottoman Empire and frees 14 Christian slaves, following the naval battle of Damietta.[6]
  • August 21 Mikhail Gvozdev in the Sviatoi Gavriil makes the first known crossing of the Bering Strait, from Cape Dezhnev to Cape Prince of Wales in Alaska, marking the first time that Europeans have reached the northwest coast of North America.[7]
  • September 13 The Treaty of the Three Black Eagles or the Treaty of Berlin, a secret treaty between the Austrian Empire, the Russian Empire and Prussia against the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
  • September 16
    • The magnitude 5.8 Montreal earthquake occurs in Quebec (New France).
    • A military warehouse explosion kills up to two-thirds of the population of Campo Maior, Portugal.[8]

OctoberDecember

  • October 7 French Army Lieutenant General Florent-Jean de Vallière is tasked by King Louis XV to improve France's method of forging cannons.
  • October 16 Russia approves the second Kamchatka expedition of Danish-born cartographer Vitus Bering, and the Admiralty orders him to sail east and try to claim uncharted lands in North America.
  • November 29 The magnitude 6.6 Irpinia earthquake causes 1,940 deaths in the former Kingdom of Naples.
  • December 5 139 members of the Parliament of Paris, exiled by order of King Louis XV, secure their recall. [9]
  • December 7 The original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden, London (the modern-day Royal Opera House) is opened.
  • December 19 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. [10] The book goes on sale on December 28. [11] The annual publication will continue until 1758.

Date unknown

  • Herman Boerhaave publishes the authorized edition of his Elementa chemiae, recognised as the first text on chemistry.[12]
  • The world's first lightship is moored at the Nore, in the Thames Estuary of England.[13]
  • This year's General Assembly of the Church of Scotland gives rise to the First Secession of 1733.

Births

Deaths

Emperor Reigen
  • January 12 John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. c.1685)
  • January 22 Louis de Sabran, British theologian (b. 1652)
  • February 6 Anne Scott, 1st Duchess of Buccleuch, wealthy Scottish peeress (b. 1651)
  • February 7 William Hiseland, English (later British) soldier, reputed supercentenarian (b. 1620)
  • February 13 Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)[15]
  • February 17 Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669)
  • February 18 Balthasar Permoser, German sculptor (b. 1651)
  • February 22
    • Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b. 1663)
    • Marie Thérèse de Bourbon, Princess of Conti and titular queen of Poland (b. 1666)
  • February 27 Giacomo Serpotta, Italian artist (b. 1652)
  • February 28 André Charles Boulle, French cabinet-maker (b. 1642)
  • March 20 Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)[16]
  • April 6 Count Palatine Francis Louis of Neuburg, Hochmeister of the Teutonic Order (b. 1664)
  • April 28 Thomas Parker, 1st Earl of Macclesfield (b. 1666)
  • May 20 Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b. 1676)
  • May 30 John King, English churchman (b. 1652)
  • July 11 Theodore Eustace, Count Palatine of Sulzbach (b. 1659)
  • July 15 Woodes Rogers, English privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas (b. c. 1679)
  • September 24 Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
  • October 6 George Duckett (Calne MP), English politician (b. 1684)
  • October 12 Dionisia de Santa María Mitas Talangpaz, Filipino saint (b. 1691)
  • October 25 Andrea Brustolon, Italian artist (b. 1662)
  • October 31 Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (b. 1666)
  • November 10 Adam Christian Thebesius, German anatomist (b. 1686)
  • November 20 Daniel d'Auger de Subercase, French naval officer, governor of Newfoundland (b. 1661)
  • November 21 Jan Jansen Bleecker, Mayor of Albany, New York (b. 1641)
  • November 26 Charles Sergison, English politician (b. 1655)
  • December 4 John Gay, English poet and dramatist (b. 1685)[17]
  • December 14 Johann Philipp Förtsch, German opera composer (b. 1652)
  • date unknown
    • Jiang Tingxi, Chinese painter, calligrapher, encyclopedist, foreign diplomat to Japan (b. 1669)
    • Agrippina Petrovna Volkonskaia, politically active Russian lady-in-waiting

References

  1. "Historical Events for Year 1732 | OnThisDay.com". Historyorb.com. Retrieved January 5, 2016.
  2. "Herat I 1731-1732/Afghan Wars", in Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O, by Tony Jaques (Greenwood Press, 2007) p445
  3. Wright, Gabriel (1804). A new nautical directory for the East-India and China navigation. W. Gilbert. p. 394. OCLC 680511332.
  4. Heaney, J. B.; Holdgate, M. W. (1957). "The Gough Island Scientific Survey". The Geographical Journal. 123 (1): 20–31. doi:10.2307/1790719. JSTOR 1790718.
  5. Bennett, William J.; Cribb, John T. E. (2008). The American Patriot's Almanac. Thomas Nelson Inc. p. 208. ISBN 978-1-59555-267-9.
  6. Quintano, Anton (2003). The Maltese-Hospitaller Sailing Ship Squadron 1701-1798. Publishers Enterprises Group. p. 17. ISBN 9789990903485.
  7. Grinëv, Andreĭ Valʹterovich (translated by Richard L. Bland) (2018). Russian Colonization of Alaska: Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 1741-1799. University of Nebraska Press.
  8. "Castelo de Campo Maior" (in Portuguese). IGESPAR. Archived from the original on March 17, 2021. Retrieved June 26, 2021.
  9. B. Robert Kreiser, Miracles, Convulsions, and Ecclesiastical Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris (Princeton University Press, 2015) p240
  10. Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, ed. by John Bigelow (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889) (editor's note, p170)
  11. "Poor Richard's Almanac", by William Pencak, in A Companion to Benjamin Franklin, by David Waldstreicher (Wiley, 2011)
  12. Clow, Archibald & Nan L. Clow The Chemical Revolution, Batchworth Press, London, 1952.
  13. "Trinity House Lightvessels". PortCities London. Retrieved October 15, 2013.
  14. Morton, Brian (2003). Beaumarchais and the American Revolution. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books. p. 1. ISBN 9780739104682.
  15. Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward; William Leist ReadwinCates (1872). Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical. Lee and Shepard. p. 426.
  16. Catholic Encyclopedia. Appleton. 1910. p. 131.
  17. Brant, Clare (2007). Walking the streets of eighteenth-century London : John Gay's Trivia (1716. Oxford New York: Oxford University Press. p. 10. ISBN 9780199280490.
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