1832

June 7: The Great Reform Act is passed by the British Parliament after long debate, changing the electoral process in England and Wales.The House of Commons, 1833 by George Hayter

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May 27: start of the Hambach Festival

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Events

January–March

January 6 – Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds the New-England Anti-Slavery Society.
January 13 – The Christmas Rebellion of slaves is brought to an end in Jamaica, after the island's white planters organize militias and the British Army sends companies of the 84th regiment to enforce martial law. More than 300 of the slave rebels will be publicly hanged for their part in the destruction.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
February 6 – The Swan River Colony is renamed Western Australia.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
February 9 – The Florida Legislative Council grants a city charter for Jacksonville, Florida.
February 12
- Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.
- A cholera epidemic in London claims at least 3,000 lives; the contagion spreads to France and North America later this year.
February 28 – Charles Darwin and the crew of Template:HMS arrive at South America for the first time.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
March 24 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.

April–June

April 6 – The Black Hawk War begins in the United States.
May 7 – The Treaty of London creates an independent Kingdom of Greece. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria, is chosen King; thus begins the history of modern Greece.
May 10 – The Egyptians, aided by Maronites, seize Acre from the Ottoman Empire after a 7-month siege.
May 11 – Greece is recognized as a sovereign nation; the Treaty of Constantinople ends the Greek War of Independence in July.
May 16 – Juan Godoy discovers the rich silver outcrops of Chañarcillo sparking the Chilean silver rush.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
May 30
- The Hambacher Fest, a demonstration for civil liberties and national unity in Germany, ends with no result.
- The Rideau Canal in eastern Ontario (Canada) is opened.
June 5–6 – The June Rebellion in France, anti-monarchist riots led chiefly by students, breaks out in Paris.
June 7 – The Reform Act receives royal assent after passage by the British Parliament, reforming the electoral system and setting uniform law for voting rights in England and Wales, though not in Scotland or Ireland.
June 9 – The Strasburg Rail Road is incorporated by the Pennsylvania State Legislature, making it the oldest continuously operating railroad in the Western Hemisphere.

July–September

July 1 – Global conglomerate Jardine Matheson is founded in Canton (modern day Guangzhou) in Qing dynasty China by Scottish merchants.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
July 2 – André-Michel Guerry presents his Essay on moral statistics of France to the French Academy of Sciences, a significant step in the founding of empirical social science.
July 4 – Durham University is founded in the north of England by an act of Parliament given royal assent by King William IV.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
July 9 – The Commissioner of Indian Affairs post is created within the United States Department of War.
July 10 – The United States Survey of the Coast is revived within the Department of the Treasury.
August 2 – The Bad Axe Massacre ends the last major Native American rebellion east of the Mississippi in the United States.
August 7 – William Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, has his coach attacked by an angry mob on his first official visit to Canterbury because of his opposition to the Reform Act in the United Kingdom.
August 9 – Leopold I of Belgium marries the daughter of the French king Louise of Orléans in a dynastic marriage at the Château de Compiègne
August 27 – Black Hawk (Sauk leader) surrenders to the United States authorities, ending the Black Hawk War.
September 22 – Qasim al-Ahmad is appointed as the new Ottoman Governor (mutasallim) of Jerusalem (Kudüs), after Sultan Mahmud II dismisses Muhammad Said Agha.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

October–December

October 4 – Prince Otto of Bavaria, the second oldest son of King Ludwig I, is selected by Europe's major powers to become Othon, the first King of Greece, after the Hellenic nation's reacquisition of independence.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
October 20 – Principal Chief Levi Colbert (Itawamba Mingo) and other leaders of the Chickasaw Nation of American Indians sign the Treaty of Pontotoc Creek with the United States, ceding their remaining 9,400 square miles of land to the U.S., in return for a promise that they will receive all proceeds of sales of the land by the federal government to private owners, along with expenses for relocation and food and supplies for one year. The area ceded includes the entire northern one-sixth of the state of Mississippi.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
October 29 - Alpha Delta Phi, the fifth-oldest<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> college fraternity, is founded as a literary society by Samuel Eells at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
November 21 – Wabash College, a small, private, liberal arts college for men, is founded.
November 24 – Nullification Crisis: The U.S. state of South Carolina passes the Ordinance of Nullification, challenging the power of the U.S. federal government, by declaring that it will not enforce national tariffs signed into law in 1828 and 1832.
December 3 – 1832 United States presidential election: Andrew Jackson is re-elected president.
December 4 – Siege of Antwerp: The last remaining Dutch stronghold, Antwerp Citadel, comes under French attack in the aftermath of the Belgian Revolution.
December 10 – U.S. President Andrew Jackson responds to the Nullification Crisis by threatening to send the U.S. Army and Navy into South Carolina if it does not comply.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
December 21 – Battle of Konya: The Egyptians defeat the main Ottoman army in central Anatolia.
December 23 – The Siege of Antwerp ends with the Dutch garrison losing the citadel.
December 28 – John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.

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George Catlin starts to live among the Sioux in the Dakota Territory.
The first Baedeker guidebook, Voyage du Rhin de Mayence à Cologne, is published in Koblenz.
Publication begins (posthumously) of Carl von Clausewitz's Vom Kriege ("On War").
The City of Buffalo in New York is incorporated.
The Cumberland and Oxford Canal connects the largest lakes of southern Maine with the seaport of Portland, Maine.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Global watch brand Longines is founded in Switzerland.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
The first commutator DC electric motor, capable of turning machinery, is demonstrated by William Sturgeon in London.