1732

1732 (MDCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar, the 1732nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 732nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 32nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1730s decade. As of the start of 1732, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	17th century – 18th century – 19th century
Decades:	1700s  1710s  1720s  – 1730s –  1740s  1750s  1760s
Years:	1729 1730 1731 – 1732 – 1733 1734 1735

1732 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1732 MDCCXXXII
Ab urbe condita	2485
Armenian calendar	1181 ԹՎ ՌՃՁԱ
Assyrian calendar	6482
Balinese saka calendar	1653–1654
Bengali calendar	1139
Berber calendar	2682
British Regnal year	5 Geo. 2 – 6 Geo. 2
Buddhist calendar	2276
Burmese calendar	1094
Byzantine calendar	7240–7241
Chinese calendar	辛亥年 (Metal Pig) 4428 or 4368     — to — 壬子年 (Water Rat) 4429 or 4369
Coptic calendar	1448–1449
Discordian calendar	2898
Ethiopian calendar	1724–1725
Hebrew calendar	5492–5493
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1788–1789
- Shaka Samvat	1653–1654
- Kali Yuga	4832–4833
Holocene calendar	11732
Igbo calendar	732–733
Iranian calendar	1110–1111
Islamic calendar	1144–1145
Japanese calendar	Kyōhō 17 (享保１７年)
Javanese calendar	1656–1657
Julian calendar	Gregorian minus 11 days
Korean calendar	4065
Minguo calendar	180 before ROC 民前180年
Nanakshahi calendar	264
Thai solar calendar	2274–2275
Tibetan calendar	阴金猪年 (female Iron-Pig) 1858 or 1477 or 705     — to — 阳水鼠年 (male Water-Rat) 1859 or 1478 or 706

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
• 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