Page 4: Historical Events In 1832

Jul 13   Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft).   

Jul 14   Opium exempted from federal tariff duty   

Jul 17   Johan August Soderman, composer   

Jul 21   Henrietta Marie Morse King, cattlewoman   

Jul 22   Napoleon FKJ Bonaparte, [l'aiglon], king of Rome, dies at 21.   

Jul 24   Benjamin Bonneville leads the inaugural wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by using Wyoming's South Pass   

Jul 24   Johann Christoph Lauterbach, violinist   

Jul 25   1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies   

Jul 25   Simon Hassler, composer   

Jul 25   The inaugural railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Mass-1 dies   

Jul 25   The inaugural recorded railroad accident in U.S. history occurred when four people were thrown off a vacant car on the Granite Railway near Quincy, Massachusetts.   

Jul 26   HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo   

Jul 30   Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies.   

Aug 01   1300 Illinois militia defeat Sac and Fox indians, end Black Hawk War.   

Aug 01   Black Hawk defeated (IA).   

Aug 01   The Black Hawk War ends   

Aug 01   Whites decimate Indians in Battle of Bad Axe River, Wisc.   

Aug 02   Henry Steel Olcott, co-founder (Theosophical Society).   

Aug 03   Ivan Zajc, composer.   

Aug 09   King Leopold I of Belgium marries Louisa Maria.   

Aug 11   Thomas Ogden Osbord, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers).   

Aug 12   Hely Hutchinson Almond, politician/doctor.   

Aug 15   Gregory XVI encyclical On liberalism and religious indifferentism.   

Aug 16   Wilhelm Wundt, German physiologist/psychologist/philosopher   

Aug 20   Thaddeus Sobieski Constantine Lowe, inventor, died in 1913   

Aug 23   Alexander Chambers, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1888   

Aug 26   Henryk Klein, composer, dies at 96.   

Aug 27   Black Hawk, leader of Sauk-indians, gives himself up.   

Aug 27   James Alexander Walker, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1901   

Aug 31   Jean Nicolas Auguste Kreutzer, composer, dies at 53.   

Sep 03   Rebellious slaves set fire to Paramaribo Suriname.   

Sep 09   Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer, dies at 39   

Sep 10   Randall Lee Gibson, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1892.   

Sep 16   George Washington Custis Lee, Major General (Confederate Army)   

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Jan 04   George tryon: British admiral   

Jan 06   Gustave doré: French painter and sculptor   

Jan 07   James munro: Premier of victoria   

Jan 09   Esquire maurits a de savornin lohman: Dutch governor of suriname   

Jan 09   Félix-gabriel marchand: Journalist, author and politician, premier of quebec   

Jan 12   Richard waterhouse jr: Brig general (confederate army), died in 1876   

Jan 13   Horatio alger: Jr., american minister and author    

Jan 19   Ferdinand laub: Composer   

Jan 13   Thomas lord: English cricketer, founder of lord's cricket ground (b. 1755)   

Jan 28   Augustin daniel belliard: French general (b. 1769)   

Feb 01   Ecco epkema: Dutch classic linguist (frisian/old frisian),   

Feb 03   George crabbe: English vicar/poet (borough),   

Feb 10   Antonio benedetto maria puccini: Composer,   

Feb 15   Hardenack otto conrad zinck: Composer,   

Feb 22   Johann wolfgang von goethe: Poet, weimar, germany   

Mar 04   Jean-françois champollion: French scholar (b. 1790)