Rock of Ages by Thomas Hastings, America by Samuel Francis Smith. Jim Crow is a blackface song and dance act in Louisville. Reform Act in Englandenfranchises upper middle class and redistributes voting power. While another revolt in Italy is quelled Germans demand a republic as Austria's Prince Metternich imposes penalties on unauthorized meetings, universities and suspicious characters. Screw propeller designed in France.
Cholera reaches Scotland from Russia, Spreads to New York.
Codeine isolated from Opium in France. Caricaturist Honore Daumier. Music by Mendelssohn. December 1832 New Basin Canal in its first full year of construction in New Orleans. A cholera epidemic - 6,000 perish in 20 day.