1732
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. [1] 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 January 24 - Pierre de Beaumarchais, French writer (d. 1799) February 22 - George Washington, later 1st President of the United States (d. 1799) March 31 - Joseph Haydn, composer (d. 1809) April 5 - Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (d. 1806) October 6 - Nevil Maskelyne, English Astronomer Royal (died 1811) December 6 - Warren Hastings, British administrator (d. 1818) December 23 - Richard Arkwright, English inventor (d. 1792) Abbas III, Shah of Persia 1732-36 Jacques Necker, French politician (d. 1804) Jean-Honoré Fragonard, French painter (d. 1806)
Deaths December 4 - John Gay, English poet and dramatist (born 1685) Emperor Reigen of JapanJuly 16 - Woodes Rogers, First Royal Governor of the Bahamas
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