Eighteenth-Century Chronology: 1732
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Literature
- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac (through
1757)
- Samuel Johnson is an usher at Market Bosworth School
- Alexander Pope, Arbuthnot, Jonathan Swift, et al., Scriblerian
miscellanies, vol. 4 (through 1735)
Theatre
Art
- William Hogart, A Harlot's Progress
Music
- Giovanni Bononcini accused of plagiary and association with an
alchemist
- George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Ezio
- George Frederick Händel (or Handel), Sosarme
Science, Technology, & Medicine
- Hermann Boerhaave, Elementa Chemia
Politics & Law
- King George II grants Georgia to James Oglethorpe, who
settles in the area in 1733
Philosophy & Theology
- Isaac Watts, Scripture History
- John Wesley first visits William Law
- George Whitefield enters Pembroke College, Oxford, and becomes a
Methodist
Milestones
- Death of John Gay, poet and playwright
- Birth of Franz Joseph Haydn, composer
- Birth of John Wood the Younger, architect
Miscellaneous
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