1732 (MDCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 17th century – 18th century – 19th century |
| Decades: | 1700s 1710s 1720s – 1730s – 1740s 1750s 1760s |
| Years: | 1729 1730 1731 – 1732 – 1733 1734 1735 |
| Gregorian calendar | 1732 MDCCXXXII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2485 |
| Armenian calendar | 1181 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԱ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6482 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1653–1654 |
| Bengali calendar | 1139 |
| Berber calendar | 2682 |
| British Regnal year | 5 Geo. 2 – 6 Geo. 2 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2276 |
| Burmese calendar | 1094 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7240–7241 |
| Chinese calendar | 辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4428 or 4368 — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4429 or 4369 |
| Coptic calendar | 1448–1449 |
| Discordian calendar | 2898 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1724–1725 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5492–5493 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1788–1789 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1653–1654 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4832–4833 |
| Holocene calendar | 11732 |
| Igbo calendar | 732–733 |
| Iranian calendar | 1110–1111 |
| Islamic calendar | 1144–1145 |
| Japanese calendar | Kyōhō 17 (享保１７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1656–1657 |
| Julian calendar | Gregorian minus 11 days |
| Korean calendar | 4065 |
| Minguo calendar | 180 before ROC 民前180年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 264 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2274–2275 |
| Tibetan calendar | ལྕགས་མོ་ཕག་ལོ་ (female Iron-Boar) 1858 or 1477 or 705 — to — ཆུ་ཕོ་བྱི་བ་ལོ་ (male Water-Rat) 1859 or 1478 or 706 |
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Events
change- 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]
- 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
Births
change- February 22 - George Washington, first President of the United States (d. 1799)
- April 5 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French artist
- April 13 - Frederick North, Lord North, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1770 to 1782
- December 6 - Warren Hastings, first Governor-General of India
- Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer
Deaths
change- October 31 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, Duke of Savoy
References
change- ↑ "The Avalon Project". Yale.edu. Retrieved 12 April 2012.