What is 1732?
{{Year nav|1732}} {{Year in various calendars|1732}} {{Year article header|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 (U.S. state)|Georgia]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/statech.asp#ga|title=The Avalon Project|publisher= Yale.edu|access-date=12 April 2012}}</ref> * [[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 people|French]] [[artist]] * April 13 - [[Frederick North, Lord North]], [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister of Great Britain]] from 1770 to 1782 * December 6 - [[Warren Hastings]], first [[Governor-General of India]] * [[Joseph Haydn]], [[Austria]]n [[composer]] ==Deaths== * October 31 - [[Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia]], [[Duke]] of [[Savoy]] ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:1732| ]]