1832 - Wikipedia

Events

February 12 - Ecuador annexes the Galapagos Islands
March 24 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith
April 6 - The Black Hawk War begins.
May 7 - The Treaty of London[?] creates an independent Kingdom of Greece. Otto of Wittelsbach, Prince of Bavaria is chosen King.
May 27 - War between the Ottoman Empire and Egypt. The Egyptians seize Acre.
June 4 - The Great Reform Bill becomes law in the U.K.
June 15 - Seizure of Damascus by Egyptian forces
October 8 - Washington Irving and Henry Leavitt Elsworth[?] arrive at Fort Gibson, I.T. in the late morning hours. They left the fort on October 10, with a small company of Rangers who escorted them to the camp of Captain Jesse Bean who was waiting for them near the Arkansas River. Thus began one of the first steps in the United States effort to remove the Indians from their homes on the east coast in what would become known as the "Trail of Tears" some six years later.
November - Andrew Jackson defeats Henry Clay in the U.S. presidential election
December 21 - Battle of Konya[?]. The Egyptians defeat the main Ottoman army in Central Anatolia.
December 28 - John C. Calhoun becomes the first Vice President of the United States to resign.

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