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.
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April 16 : Shah Tahmasp II of Persia is overthrown by General Nadir Khan.
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Herman Boerhaave publishes Elementa chemiae , considered the first text on chemistry.
October– December
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 Parlement 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.
February 22
March 1 – William Cushing , Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1810 )
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 Great Britain (d. 1792 )[15]
April 17 – John Blair Jr. , American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1800 )
June 21 – Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach , German composer (d. 1795 )
September 2 – William Crawford , American soldier and surveyor (d. 1782 )
September 26 – José de Córdoba y Ramos , Spanish explorer, naval commander (d. 1815 )
September 30 – Jacques Necker , French politician (d. 1804 )
October 6 – Nevil Maskelyne , English Astronomer Royal (d. 1811 )
October 10 – John Hancock , American silversmith (d. 1784 )
October 24 – Cristina Roccati , Italian scholar in physics (d. 1797 )
November 4 – Thomas Johnson , American politician and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1819 )
November 9 – Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse , French salon holder (d. 1776 )
November 13 – John Dickinson , Governor of Delaware and Pennsylvania (d. 1808 )
December 6 – Warren Hastings , British administrator (d. 1818 )
December 15 – Carl Gotthard Langhans , German architect (d. 1808 )
December 21 – Johann Christian Wiegleb , German chemist (d. 1800 )
December 23 – Richard Arkwright , English inventor (d. 1792 )
date unknown – Francis Marion , American officer (d. 1795 )
Emperor Reigen
January 12 – John Horsley , British archaeologist (b. c.1685 )
January 14 – Richard Hancorne , Welsh clergyman (b. 1687 )
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 )[16]
February 17 – Louis Marchand , French organist and harpsichordist (b. 1669 )
February 18 – Balthasar Permoser , German sculptor (b. 1651 )
February 22
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 )[17]
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 )[18]
December 14 – Johann Philipp Förtsch , German opera composer (b. 1652 )
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"Herat I 1731-1732/Afghan Wars", in Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O , by Tony Jaques (Greenwood Press, 2007) p445
Wright, Gabriel (1804). A new nautical directory for the East-India and China navigation . W. Gilbert. p. 394. OCLC 680511332 . Quintano, Anton (2003). The Maltese-Hospitaller Sailing Ship Squadron 1701-1798 . Publishers Enterprises Group. p. 17. ISBN 9789990903485 .
Grinëv, Andreĭ Valʹterovich (translated by Richard L. Bland) (2018). Russian Colonization of Alaska: Preconditions, Discovery, and Initial Development, 1741-1799 . University of Nebraska Press.
B. Robert Kreiser, Miracles, Convulsions, and Ecclesiastical Politics in Early Eighteenth-Century Paris (Princeton University Press, 2015) p240
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin , ed. by John Bigelow (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1889) (editor's note, p170)
"Poor Richard's Almanac", by William Pencak, in A Companion to Benjamin Franklin , by David Waldstreicher (Wiley, 2011)
Clow, Archibald & Nan L. Clow The Chemical Revolution , Batchworth Press, London, 1952.
Morton, Brian (2003). Beaumarchais and the American Revolution . Lanham, Md: Lexington Books. p. 1. ISBN 9780739104682 . Bernard Bolingbroke Woodward; William Leist ReadwinCates (1872). Encyclopaedia of Chronology: Historical and Biographical . Lee and Shepard. p. 426.
Catholic Encyclopedia . Appleton. 1910. p. 131.
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 .