What Happened in July 1832

Historical Events

  • Jul 10 President Jackson vetoed legislation to re-charter 2nd Bank of US

Event of Interest

Jul 13 Source of Mississippi River discovered by American geographer Henry Schoolcraft

  • Jul 24 Benjamin Bonneville leads the first wagon train across the Rocky Mountains by Wyoming's South Pass
  • Jul 25 1st railroad accident in US, Granite Railway, Quincy, Massachusetts, kills 1
  • Jul 26 HMS Beagle anchors in Montevideo

Famous Birthdays

Maximilian I (1832-1867)

Jul 6 Austrian archduke and the 1st and only monarch of the Second Mexican Empire (1864-67), born in Vienna, Austria

  • Jul 10 Alvan Graham Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (Sirius B), born in Fall River, Massachusetts (d. 1897)
  • Jul 11 Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician (Prime Minister of Greece for 7 times from 1875-1895), born in Nafplion, Greece (d. 1896)
  • Jul 17 (Johan) August Söderman, Swedish composer, born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1876)
  • Jul 21 Henrietta Maria Morse King, American rancher and philanthropist, born in Boonville, Missouri (d. 1925)
  • Jul 24 Johann Christoph Lauterbach, German violinist and concert master, born in Kulmbach, Germany (d. 1918)
  • Jul 25 Simon Hassler, German-American composer, born in Bavaria, Kingdom of Bavaria (now Germany) (d. 1901)

Famous Deaths

  • Jul 22 Napoleon II, son of Napoleon Bonaparte, French Prince Imperial and King of Rome (never ruled France) dies of tuberculosis at 21
  • Jul 30 Jean-A-C Chaptal, French chemist/Internal minister, dies