1732

Decades: 1680s 1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s - 1730s - 1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s

Years: 1727 1728 1729 1730 1731 - 1732 - 1733 1734 1735 1736 1737

Events

• February 23 - First performance of Handel's Oratorio, in London
• December 7 - The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) is opened
• Genoa regains Corsica
• 139 members of the Paris Parlement are exiled by order of the King, but are eventually triumphant over the Crown, and secure their recall in December
• Cobalt discovered

Year in topic

• 1732 in literature
• 1732 in science

Births

• January 24 - Pierre Caron de Beaumarchais, French writer (died 1799)
• February 22 - George Washington, later 1st President of the United States (died 1799)
• March 31 - Joseph Haydn, composer (died 1809)
• October 6 - Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal (died 1811)
• December 6 - Warren Hastings, British administrator (died 1818)
• December 23 - Richard Arkwright, English inventor (died 1792)
• Abbas III, Shah of Persia 1732-36
• Jacques Necker, French politician (died 1804)
• Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (died 1806)

Deaths

• December 4 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685)
• Emperor Reigen of Japan

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