1732

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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