1832 - What happened in 1832 ?

January 1832

Friday 13:

President Andrew Jackson wrote Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.

February 1832

Sunday 12:

Ecuador annexes the Galápagos Islands.

March 1832

Saturday 24:

In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..

April 1832

Friday 06:

The Sauk warrior Black Hawk enters into war with the United States.

Sunday 08:

Black Hawk War: Around 300 United States 6th Infantry troops leave Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis to fight the Sauk Native Americans.

May 1832

Monday 07:

Greece was recognised independent by the Treaty of London. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.

June 1832

Thursday 07:

Asian cholera brought to Quebec by Irish immigrants kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.

July 1832

Tuesday 10:

President Andrew Jackson vetoes a bill that would re-charter the Second Bank of the United States.

Tuesday 24:

Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass.

August 1832

Wednesday 01:

The Black Hawk War ends.

December 1832

Friday 28:

John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.