1732
*
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
*
January 24 -
Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (d.
1799)
*
February 22 -
George Washington, 1st
President of the United States (d. 1799)
*
March 31 -
Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (d.
1809)
*
April 5 -
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (d.
1806)
*
June 21 -
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, German composer (d.
1795)
*
September 30 -
Jacques Necker, French politician (d.
1804)
*
October 6 -
Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal (died
1811)
*
November 13 -
John Dickinson, American lawyer and
Governor of Delaware and
Pennsylvania (d.
1808)
*
December 6 -
Warren Hastings, British administrator (d.
1818)
*
December 23 -
Richard Arkwright, English inventor (d.
1792)
*
Abbas III, Shah of Persia
*
January 12 -
John Horsley, British archaeologist
*
February 13 -
Charles-René d'Hozier, French historian (b.
1640)
*
February 17 -
Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist (b.
1669)
*
February 22 -
Francis Atterbury, English bishop and man of letters (b.
1663)
*
March 20 -
Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b.
1681)
*
May 20 -
Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (b.
1676)
*
July 16 -
Woodes Rogers, English privateer and first Royal Governor of the Bahamas
*
September 24 -
Emperor Reigen of Japan (b.
1654)
*
October 31 -
Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (b.
1666)
*
December 4 -
John Gay, English poet and dramatist (b.
1685)
