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What Happened in December 1732

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Historical Events

  • Dec 6 1st play in American colonies acted by professional players in New York
  • Dec 7 The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London, England
  • Dec 13 Prussia joins Austria and Russia in signing the Treaty of Berlin, a secret treaty regarding succession to the Polish throne

"Poor Richard's Almanack"

Dec 19 Benjamin Franklin, under the pseudonym Richard Saunders, begins publication of "Poor Richard's Almanack"; he would produce an annual issue for the next 25 years

Benjamin Franklin and a page from his highly successful Poor Richard’s Almanack

Events in 1732

Famous Birthdays

  • Dec 6 Warren Hastings, 1st governor-general of India (1773-84), born in Churchill, Oxfordshire (d. 1818)
  • Dec 13 Jean-Claude Trial, French composer, born in Avignon, France (d. 1771)

Richard Arkwright (1732-1792)

Dec 23 English industrialist and inventor (created the spinning frame, built Cromford Mill), born in Preston, England

Richard Arkwright

Born in 1732

Famous Deaths

  • Dec 4 John Gay, English poet and dramatist (The Beggar's Opera), dies at 47
  • Dec 14 Johann Philipp Förtsch, German Baroque composer, statesman, and physician, dies at 80
  • Dec 18 Johann Valentin Eckelt, German composer, dies at 59


What Happened in 1732

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