This Year in History:
1832
Discover what happened in this year with HISTORY’s summaries of major events, anniversaries, famous births and notable deaths.
The mighty American Fur Company adopts the latest in transportation technology to its business, dispatching the company’s new steamboat Yellowstone to pick up furs in Montana. A decade earlier, John…
Determined to resist the growing presence of Anglo settlers on traditional tribal lands, the Sauk warrior Black Hawk is drawn into war with the United States. Called Ma‑ka‑tai‑me‑she‑kia‑kiak by his…
The fur trader William Sublette leads a pack train out of Independence, Missouri, heading west for a disastrous rendezvous at Pierre’s Hole, Idaho. William Sublette was the eldest of five…
On July 10, 1832, President Andrew Jackson vetoes the government’s effort to re‑charter the Second Bank of the United States, one of his most forceful actions against the institution, which…
Benjamin Bonneville, an inept fur trader who some speculate may have actually been a spy, leads the first wagon train to cross the Rocky Mountains at Wyoming’s South Pass. The…
What is believed to be the first recorded railroad accident in U.S. history occurs when four people are thrown off a vacant car on the Granite Railway near Quincy, Massachusetts.…
George Washington Custis Lee is born to Robert E. and Mary Custis Lee in Fort Monroe, Virginia. The eldest son and the second of seven children, Custis Lee, as his…
On November 14, 1832, New York City’s New York and Harlem company premiered the nation’s first horse‑drawn street car. Making its debut on Bowery and Fourth Avenue in Manhattan, between…
Citing political differences with President Andrew Jackson and a desire to fill a vacant Senate seat in South Carolina, John C. Calhoun becomes the first vice president in U.S. history…
