History
1732
General
Population: 705 Million*
- Entertainment: Writers include Philippe Nericault (Destouches) (comedy), George Berkeley The Minute Philosopher, JJ Moser (law),
Benjamin Franklin publishes Poor Richard’s Almanac, German bookseller Johann Heinrich Zedler publishes universal lexicon, Voltaire,
Art includes Chardin "Kitchen Table with Shoulder of Mutton"
Music includes JG Walther writes first music lexicon
- Medicine: Worldwide influenza outbreak
- Religion: The Moravian Bretheren start missionary work
- Science: Hermann Boerhaave writes "Elements of Chemistry"
- Deaths: Sculptor Balthasar Permoser, Robert "King" Carter - ancestor of at least six US presidents and VA planter, Musician John Gay,
Climant of Transylvania Francis II Rakoczy,
Americas
- General: European conflicts spread to North American lands
Asia
Europe
- German States: King Frederick William I of Prussia settles 12,000 Protestants in E Prussia
- Great Britain: Academie of Ancient Music founded in London
Covent Garden Opera House founded in London
- Holy Roman Empire: Emperor Charles VI gets recognition of the Pragmatic Sanction
- Italian States: End of Corsican independence - regained by Genoa
Nicola Salvi creates Fontana di Trevi (Trevi fountain) in Rome
General
- Americana: Birth of George Washington
- Finance: Molasses Acts forbid American trade with French colonies in Caribbean
- Politics: European conflicts spread to North American lands
East
- New York: London theatrical company performs
Ninepins played for first time in New York
- Pennsylvania: Conrad Brissel founds Seventh Day Baptists in Germantown
Midwest
- Michigan: Fort Vincinnes founded on the Wabash river in Detroit region by French
South
- Georgia: James Oglethorpe obtains charter to establish Georgia