1732
Events
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January–March
April–June
July–September
October–December
Date unknown
- Herman Boerhaave publishes the authorized edition of his Elementa chemiae, recognised as the first text on chemistry.
- The world's first lightship is moored at the Nore, in the Thames Estuary of England.
- This year's General Assembly of the Church of Scotland gives rise to the First Secession of 1733.</onlyinclude>
- The Portsmouth Grammar School was founded in 1732 by Dr. William Smith, a physician and former Mayor of Portsmouth. Following his death, his will directed that his estate be used to establish the school in partnership with Christ Church, Oxford.
Births
- February 22
- George Washington, first President of the United States (d. 1799)
- Jean-Bernard Restout, French painter (d. 1797)
- March 1 – William Cushing, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1810)
- March 23 – Adélaïde of France, Princess of France and Duchess of Louvois (d. 1800)
- March 31 – Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d. 1809)
- April 5 РJean-Honor̩ 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)
- 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 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 ÃÂléonore 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)
Deaths
- 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 РCharles-Ren̩ d'Hozier, French historian (b. 1640)
- 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 РAndr̩ Charles Boulle, French cabinet-maker (b. 1642)
- March 20 – Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)
- 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 MarÃÂa 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)
- December 14 РJohann Philipp F̦rtsch, 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
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