A Regency Era Timeline 1832 in progress

Timeline

Each time I start a year, I have already compiled a list, months ago with about 6000 entered of what happened from 1788 to 1837. My first step now (It took several trials to get this down to a science) is to cut out the specific year I will work on and paste it into its own spreadsheet to work with. When I worked on the entire spreadsheet, sometimes inserting a line, with all the graphics I had begun to place, took a long time. Working on each year alone, is a lot faster.

With the year separated out, I now turn to my book sources,

The Timetables of History by Grun and Stein

Chronology of CULTURE by Paxton and Fairfield

What Happened When by Carruth.

, History of the World. A beautiful Dorealing Kindersley book.

I now diligently look through each of these to find entries that I did not come across on the internet, and other printed lists. It is possible that there are places that have more listings for each year. I have not found them. And when you go to the Timelines at the Regency Assembly Press page, there you will see all the graphical references as well. Something that I did not find anywhere else.

Here is the start of 1832:

Year

Month Day

Event



1832

Jan 6

Gustave Dore, illustrator (Inferno, Ancient Mariner), was born in Strasbourg, France.



1832

Jan 13

Horatio Alger, Jr., the author of more than 100 inspirational books for young people from the Civil War to the turn of the 20th century, was born the son of a Unitarian minister. Rejected by the Union Army because of asthma, Horatio Alger was a poet, teacher and newspaper correspondent before he eventually followed in his father’s footsteps and became a minister on Cape Cod. Alger is best-known, however, for his books with rags-to-riches themes. In Alger’s world, everyone, no matter how poor or powerless, could succeed through hard work, honesty and high moral values. His “pluck and luck” books of hope in the face of adversity were always bestsellers and almost every home, school and church owned a large collection. More than 250 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide. His books included “Ragged Dick” and “Tattered Tom.”



1832

Jan 23

Edouard Manet (d.1883), French impressionist painter. His work was a major influence on the young artists who created the Impressionist movement. His style was influenced by the Spanish masters, particularly Velasquez. His work included the “Execution of Maximilian,” “Luncheon on the Grass,” the pastel “Portrait of Mademoiselle Lemaire,” “In the Boat,” “La Promenade” and “Le Journal Illustre” (ca. 1878-79).



1832

Jan 27

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (d.1898), who wrote “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” in 1865 under the pen name Lewis Carroll, was born in Cheshire, England. He was also know as a skilled photographer and did nude photography with an “intense focus on his subjects’ personalities.” Dodgson lectured on mathematics at Oxford from 1855 to 1881 and made up the stories about Alice in Wonderland for his daughter Alice and her sisters. He wrote “Through the Looking Glass” in 1872 and other children’s books. His most important mathematical work was the 1879 “Euclid and His Modern Rivals.” “If you limit your actions in life to things that nobody can possibly find fault with, you will not do much.” In 1995 Morton N. Cohen published an authoritative biography titled “Lewis Carroll: A Biography.”



1832

Feb 6

A US ship destroyed a Sumatran village in retaliation for piracy.



1832

Feb 6

There was an appearance of cholera at Edinburgh, Scotland.



1832

Feb 13

Cholera appeared in London for the 1st time.



1832

Feb 20

Charles Darwin visited Fernando Noronha in Atlantic Ocean.



1832

Feb 22

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (b.1749), poet, (Faust, Egmont) died in Weimar, Germany. Goethe had served as minister of mines under Bismarck. He completed “Faust” just before his death: “When Ideas fail, words come in handy.” In 1988 Kenneth Weisinger authored “The Classical Facade: A Non-Classical Reading of Goethe’s Criticism.” In 2006 John Armstrong authored “Love, Life, Goethe: How to Be Happy in an Imperfect World.”



1832

Feb 26

Jo George Nicolay, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and his biographer, was born. 



1832

Feb 26

The Polish constitution was abolished by Czar Nicholas I.



1832

Feb

A cholera epidemic ended in Great Britain. Some 800 people died of the disease in London. Dr. John Snow eventually traced the London epidemic to a water pump on Broad Street. [see 1849] In 2006 Steven Johnson authored “The Ghost Map,” a history of London’s cholera outbreak.



1832

Mar 4

Jean Francois Champollion (b.1790), French scholar, died. His work included the 2-volume book “Egypt Under the Pharaohs” (1814) and a translation of the hieroglyphics of the Rosetta Stone, completed in 1822.



1832

Mar 10

Muzio Clementi (79), Italian composer, died.



1832

Mar 11

Franz Melde, German physicist (Melde test), was born.



1832

Mar 12

Charles Boycott, estate manager who caused boycotts, was born in Ireland.



1832

Mar 17

Daniel Conway Moncure, U.S. clergyman, author, abolitionist, was born.



1832

Mar 24

Mormon founder, martyr Joseph Smith was beaten, tarred and feathered in Ohio.



1832

Mar 24

The British Reform Act passed the House of Commons under the Whig government. It introduced the first changes to electoral franchise legislation in almost one hundred and fifty years. On June 4 it passed the House of Lords and on June 7 received Royal Assent.



1832

Mar 26

Famed western artist George Catlin began his voyage up the Missouri River aboard the American Fur Company steamship Yellowstone. Painted Warriors.



1832

Apr 4

Charles Darwin aboard HMS Beagle reached Rio de Janeiro.



1832

Apr 8

Charles Darwin began a trip through Rio de Janeiro.



1832

Apr 8

Some 300 American troops of the 6th Infantry left Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, to confront the Sauk Indians in what would become known as the Black Hawk War.



1832

Apr 13

James Wimshurst, British designer, inventor (electric static generator), was born.



1832

Apr 15

Wilhelm Busch, German artist, was born. He created the precursor to the cartoon strip.



1832

Apr 19

Lucretia Rudolph, President Garfield’s first lady, was born.



1832

Apr 21

Abraham Lincoln (23) assembled with his New Salem neighbors for the Black Hawk War on the Western frontier. Illinois Governor John Reynolds had called for volunteers to beat back a new Indian threat. Black Hawk, chief of the Sac and Fox Indians, had returned to his homeland at the head of a band of 450 warriors, intent on forcibly reversing the treaty he had signed 28 years earlier that ceded control of the tribe’s ancestral home in northwestern Illinois to the U.S.  government.



1832

May 5

H.H. Bancroft, historian, publisher (History of Pacific States), was born.



1832

May 7

The Treaty of London protocol was signed between Bavaria and the protecting Powers. It basically dealt with the way in which the Regency of Bavaria was to be managed until Otto of Bavaria reached his majority. Greece was defined as an independent kingdom, with the Arta-Volos line as its northern frontier and Otto as king.



1832

May 12

Gaetano Donizetti’s opera “L’elisir d’amore,” premiered in Milan.



1832

May 14

Felix Mendelssohn’s “Hebrides,” premiered.



1832

May 18

Bonafacio Asioli, composer, died.



1832

May 21

The first Democratic National Convention got under way, in Baltimore and re-nominated Andrew Jackson.



1832

May 23

Samuel Sharp was hanged in Jamaica for leading a slave rebellion. He is survived by his immortal declaration: “I would rather die upon yonder gallows than live in slavery.”



1832

May 31

Evariste Galois (b.1811), French mathematician who developed a general theory of equations, died from wounds suffered in a duel. In 2005 Mario Livio authored “The Equation That couldn’t Be Solved: How Mathematical Genius Discovered the Language of Symmetry.”



1832

Jun 5

In Paris an insurrection took place during General Lamarque’s funeral when insurgents got as far as the Rue Montorgueil and were then driven back.



1832

Jun 6

Jeremy Bentham (b.1748), English social reformer, died. He had his body preserved at the Univ. College, London. Bentham was later considered the father of utilitarianism. He thought that enlightened policymakers should seek the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people.



1832

Jun 7

The British Reform Act received royal assent and became law. The act, pressed through by PM Earl Grey, forestalled a revolution by increasing the number of people who were eligible to vote.



1832

Jul 1

The firm Jardine, Matheson & Co. was founded in Canton following a meeting between William Jardine and another Scots trader, James Matheson from Sutherland.



1832

Jul 4

The song “America” was sung publicly for the first time at a Fourth of July celebration by a group of children at Park Street Church in Boston. The words were written on a scrap of paper in half an hour by Dr. Samuel Francis Smith, a Baptist minister, and were set to the music of “God Save the King.”



1832

Jul 5

The German government began curtailing freedom of the press after German Democrats advocate a revolt against Austrian rule.



1832

Jul 10

President Andrew Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.



1832

Jul 13

Henry Schoolcraft discovered the source of the Mississippi River in Minnesota. Henry Rowe Schoolcraft came upon the lake where the Mississippi starts and intended to call it Veritas Caput, the Latin for “true head.” The name was too long and got shortened at both ends to Itasca.



1832

Jul 22

Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte (21), [l'Aiglon], king of Rome, died.



1832

Jul 25

The 1st US railroad accident was at Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass., and 1 died.



1832

Aug 2

Some 1,300 Illinois militia under General Henry Atkinson massacred Sauk Indian men, women and children who were followers of Black Hawk at the Bad Axe River in Wisconsin. Black Hawk himself finally surrendered three weeks later, bringing the Black Hawk War to an end.



1832

Aug 27

Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-Indians, gave himself up.



1832

Aug 31

Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer, died at 53.



1832

Aug

In Pennsylvania 57 Irish immigrants died of cholera after traveling there to build a railroad. In 2009 their bones were found at a woodsy site known as Duffy’s Cut, named after Philip Duffy, who hired the immigrants from Donegal, Tyrone and Derry to help build the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. In 2010 evidence indicated that at least some of the men’s remains showed signs of violence.



1832

Sep 21

Sir Walter Scott (b.1771), Scottish poet and novelist, died at Abbotsford near Melrose in the Scottish Borders. His novels included “Ivanhoe” and “Rob Roy.” Scott was later credited with inventing the genre of historical fiction. In 2010 Stuart Kelley authored “Scott-land: The Man Who Invented a Nation.”



1832

Sep 25

William Le Baron Jenney, US, architect and “father of the skyscraper,” was born.



1832

Oct 4

William Griggs, inventor (photo chromo lithography), was born.



1832

Oct 14

Blackfeet Indians attacked American Fur Company trappers near Montana’s Jefferson River, killing one.



1832

Oct 22

Leopold Damrosch, composer, was born.



1832

Nov 14

Charles Carroll (95), large landowner and signer Declaration of Independence, died.



1832

Nov 14

The first streetcar—a horse-drawn vehicle called the John Mason—went into operation in New York City.



1832

Nov 15

Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony # 5 (“Reformation”) premiered.



1832

Nov 15

Jean-Baptiste Say (b.1767), French economist, died. He is remembered for what came to be called Say’s Law: “the supply (sale) of X creates the demand (purchase) of Y.” This law can be shown by business-cycle statistics. When downturns start, production is always first to decline, ahead of demand. When the economy recovers, production recovers ahead of demand. A society can’t consume if it does not produce.



1832

Nov 24

South Carolina passed an Ordinance of Nullification. The US government had enacted a tariff. South Carolina nullified it and threatened to secede. Pres. Jackson threatened armed force on his home state but a compromise was devised by Henry Clay that ducked the central problem.



1832

Nov 24

The doctrine of nullification involved an argument concerning the nature of the union as defined by the writers of the Constitution and addressed the question: “Was the US a compact of sovereign states, each retaining ultimate authority, or was the US one nation formed by the people through the writing of the Constitution?” John C. Calhoun, supporter of the doctrine of nullification, was Pres. Jackson’s principal opponent in the nullification crises.



1832

Nov 26

Public streetcar service began in New York City. The fare: 12 ½ cents.



1832

Nov 29

Louisa May Alcott (d.1888), American author who wrote “Little Women,” was born in Germantown, Pa. Under the pen name A.M. Barnard she wrote stories of violence and revenge that included “Pauline’s Passion and Punishment.” “It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.”



1832

Dec 5

Andrew Jackson was re-elected US president and became the 1st president to win an election in which the turnout exceeded 50%. The US anti-Mason Party with William Wirt drew 8% of the vote against Henry Clay and the eventual winner, Andrew Jackson. Clay led the Whig Party which coalesced against the power of Andrew Jackson. The Whigs came from the conservative, nationalist wing of the Jeffersonian Republicans. The election served as a referendum on Jackson’s position against the 2nd Bank of the US.



1832

Dec 15

Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, designed named the tower in Paris, was born.



1832

Dec 22

HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reached Barnevelts Islands.



1832

Dec 25

Charles Darwin celebrated Christmas in St. Martin at Cape Receiver.



1832

Dec 28

John C. Calhoun became the first vice president of the United States to resign, stepping down over differences with President Jackson. Van Buren served as vice president under Andrew Jackson from 1833 to 1837.



1832



The Great Reform Act; seats in parliament are distributed more fairly, and the vote is extended to middle class men.



1832



Egypt takes advantage of Russia’s defeat of the Ottoman Turks and declares independence.



1832



The Whigs acquire more power momentarily. They are largely aristocrats with liberal leanings. They want to make Britain’s political system fairer and to placate working people without giving in to all their demands. The Great Reform Act, denied in 1831, is passed into law.



1832



In Illinois, a state since 1818, the Fox Indians, led by Black Hawk, are defeated militarily. In his surrender speech Black Hawk acknowledges defeat. He says he has done nothing shameful.



1832



Uriah Phillips Levy, a US naval lieutenant, commissioned a statue of Thomas Jefferson by Paris sculptor Piere-Jean David D’Anger. In 1847 Pres. Polk set the statue in front of the white House, where it stood for 27 years.



1832



Delacroix painted the Moroccan scene “A Street in Meknes.”



1832



Jean Ingres, French artist, painted the portrait of the self-made newspaperman “Louis-Francois Bertin.”



1832



The Durham Steer was painted by Austin Neame for the Kent & Canterbury Show of livestock.



1832



Jean Giono wrote his 1954 novel: “The Horseman on the Roof.” In 1996 it was made into a film directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau and is set in plague-stricken Provence in 1832.



1832



A lexicon of famous hand gestures was written by a canon of the Cathedral of Naples. In 2000 it was translated by to English by Andrea de Jorio.



1832



Berlioz composed “Lelio.”



1832



The Hudson Bay Company founded its trading post of Fort Nisqually. 2nd source has it established in 1833, 15 miles south of Tacoma as the hub of the Puget Sound Agricultural Company.



1832



Pres. Jackson dispatched the US Navy to South Carolina to quash an effort to nullify federal tariffs within the state.



1832



Pres. Jackson sent the frigate Potomac to bombard the pirate lair of Kuala Batu.



1832



The US Congress passed a law that required all US citizens to fast and pray one day a week. It was neither enforced nor observed.



1832



Congress set aside the thermal springs at Hot Springs, Ark., as a federal reservation.



1832



Phrenology, the “science” of reading the human personality from bumps on the skull, was brought to America by German physician Johann Spurzheim. It was founded on the theory that the brain had 35 to 45 sectors, each the site of a particular character trait such as appetite, combativeness and benevolence. Phrenology gained an enthusiastic following in America and spawned a whole industry producing phrenological paraphernalia. Cranial “maps” could be purchased to chart the topography of the skull and reveal the subject’s true self. Although phrenology was ultimately rejected as having no basis in scientific fact, it reflected 19th-century scientists’ growing interest in the workings of the human brain.



1832



Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect in Poughkeepsie, N.Y., invented the game he called “Lexico.” He made millions after the name was changed to “Scrabble.” [see 1938]



1832



A cholera epidemic hit Baltimore and at least 853 people were killed. Fundamentalist Christians blamed the deaths on the “judgement of God.”



1832



The Pittsburgh riverfront home of coal baron Abraham Hays flooded. Hays built a new mansion,  which later became a stop on the Underground Railroad, harboring slaves who traveled a tunnel from the Monongahela River to the vast brick-lined basement.



1832



Charles Carroll, one of the signers of the US Declaration of Independence, died at age 95.



1832



Franz Sacher, a chef in the employ of Prince Metternich, invented the torte. Family documents at the Hotel Sacher in Vienna support the claim.



1832



The United Kingdom passed the Anatomy Act, which allowed hospitals and workhouses to hand over for dissection bodies left unclaimed for two days.



1832



Honore Daumier, French artist, was imprisoned for 6 months for his barbs against King Louis-Philippe.



1832



Charles-Louis Havas sets up a foreign newspapers translation agency.



1832



In Kazakhstan Akmolinsk was founded. It was later renamed Tselinograd and then Akmola. In 1998 it became the capital and was renamed Astana, which means capital.



1832



In Sweden King Karl XIV Johan inaugurated the Göta Canal.



1832-1889



Juan Montalvo, Ecuadorian essayist and political writer: “There is nothing harder than the softness of indifference.”



1832-1904



Luigi Palma di Cesnola was born in Italy and later served for the Union Army in the Civil War. He was appointed as American Consul to Cyprus in 1865, where he collected many artifacts. He later sold his collection to the NYC Metropolitan Museum.



1832-1914



This period was covered by Robert Bickers in his 2011 book: “The Scramble For China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914.”