1832

Events
Forsyth County, Georgia and Barbour County, Alabama become counties.
 A cholera epidemic affects New York City and other major American cities.
The University of Durham, England is founded (created).

Births
 January 13 - Horatio Alger, Jr. American boys' writer, in Chelsea, Massachusetts
 January 27 – Lewis Carroll, English children's writer, in Daresbury, Cheshire
 November 29 – Louisa May Alcott American girls' writer, in Germantown, Pennsylvania