1732

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1732 (MDCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday in the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday in the Julian calendar.

Events

• February 23 – First performance of Handel's Orlando, in London
• June 9 – James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia.
• 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

• 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

• October 31 - Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia, Duke of Savoy

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