1832
1832 was a leap year.
Events
Forsyth County, Georgia and Barbour County, Alabama becomes 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