In the year 1732, Russia and Persia sign a peace treaty - Russia will no longer establish claims over Persian territories (Jan 21), James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia (Jun 9), the Russian geodesist Mikhail Gvozdev makes the first documented crossing of the Bering Strait (Aug), Russia approves the second Kamchatka expedition of Danish-born cartographer Vitus Bering, and the Admiralty orders him to sail east and try to claim uncharted lands in North America (Oct 16), the original Theatre Royal, Covent Garden is opened in London (Dec 7) - and all these fine people were born:
1732-xxxx Francis Marion* military officer/"the Swamp Fox"/served in the American Revolutionary War - Berkeley County, Province of South Carolina, British America (1795/63)
1732-0102 František Xaver Brixi* Czech composer - Prague (1771/39)
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1732-0124 Pierre Beaumarchais* polymath/writer/ revolutionary - Paris, France (1799/67)
1732-0201 Sipi Juhonpoika Lusa** father of Maria Sipintytär Orhanen - Kurikka, Sweden-Finland (1808/76)
1732-0210
1732-0222 Jean-Bernard Restout* painter - Paris, France (1797/65)
1732-0222 George Washington* politician/1usp – Westmoreland County, Colony of Virginia, British America (1799/67)
1732-0228
1732-0301 William Cushing* lawyer/ justice - Scituate, Massachusetts Bay, British America (1810/78)
1732-0310
1732-0321 Joseph Haydn* composer – Rohrau, Austria (1809/77)
1732-0401
1732-0405 Jean-Honoré Fragonard* painter/ printmaker - Grass, France (1806/74)
1732-0408 David Rittenhouse* astronomer/ inventor/public official - Paper Mill Run, Pennsylvania, British America (1796/64)
1732-0513 Job Höckert* church builder - Pori, Sweden-Finland (1802/70)
1732-0517 Henrik Tomas Adlercreutz* civil servant/active in Finland - Stockholm, Sweden (1801/68)
1732-0520
1732-0621 Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach* harpsicordist/composer/fifth son of JSB - Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1795/62)
1732-0701
1732-0711 Jérôme Lalande* astronomer/ freemason/writer - Bourg-en-Bresse, France (1807/74)
1732-0714 Eric Castrén* reforming vicar - Paltamo, Sweden-Finland (1787/55)
1732-0808 Johann Christoph Adelung* German grammarian/philologist - Spantekow (1806/74)
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1732-0828 Johan Gabriel Bergman* physician/active in Turku - Pori, Sweden-Finland (1793/61)
1732-0930 Jacques Necker* banker/statesman – Geneva, Republic of Geneva (1804/71)
1732-1024 Cristina Roccati* scholar in physics/poet - Rovigo, Italy (1797/64)
1732-11xx Kaisa Joosepintytär Ala-Kuhna** (b Latva-Röyskö) mother of Heikki Matinpoika Ala-Kuhna - Ilmajoki, Sweden-Finland (1806/73)
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1732-1109 Jeanne Julie Éléonore de Lespinasse* salon holder/letter writer - Lyon, France (1776/43)
1732-1113 John Dickinson* a Founding Father of the United States - Talbot County, Province of Maryland, British America (1808/75)
1732-1118 Pehr Hilleström* painter - Väddö, Sweden (1816/83)
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1732-1215 Carl Gotthard Langhals* architect/designer of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate - Landeshut, Silesia, German Empire (1808/85)
1732-1223 Richard Arkwright* inventor/leading entrepreneur during the early Industrial Revolution – Preston, Lancashire, England (1792/59)
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