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  • New Salem, Illinois, U.S.
    1832
    Abraham Lincoln

    Purchase of a general store on credit in New Salem

    New Salem, Illinois, U.S.
    1832

    In 1832, Lincoln joined with a partner, Denton Offutt, in the purchase of a general store on credit in New Salem.




  • New York, U.S.
    1832
    Sojourner Truth

    Met Robert Matthews

    New York, U.S.
    1832

    In 1832, Sojourner Truth met Robert Matthews, also known as Prophet Matthias, and went to work for him as a housekeeper at the Matthias Kingdom communal colony.




  • Illinois, U.S.
    Mar, 1832
    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln entered politics

    Illinois, U.S.
    Mar, 1832

    Although the economy was booming, the business struggled and Lincoln eventually sold his share. That March he entered politics, running for the Illinois General Assembly, advocating navigational improvements on the Sangamon River. He could draw crowds as a raconteur, but he lacked the requisite formal education, powerful friends, and money, and lost the election.




  • Illinois, U.S.
    1832
    Abraham Lincoln

    Lincoln briefly interrupted his campaign to serve as a captain in the Illinois Militia

    Illinois, U.S.
    1832

    Lincoln briefly interrupted his campaign to serve as a captain in the Illinois Militia during the Black Hawk War. When he returned to his campaign and first speech, he observed a supporter in the crowd under attack, grabbed the assailant by his "neck and the seat of his trousers" and tossed him. Lincoln finished eighth out of 13 candidates (the top four were elected), though he received 277 of the 300 votes cast in the New Salem precinct.




  • Acre, Israel
    May, 1832
    Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

    Acre fell to Ibrahim's army six months

    Acre, Israel
    May, 1832

    The city fell to Ibrahim's army six months later in May 1832. After Acre, he continued on to win control of Aleppo, Homs, Beirut, Sidon, Tripoli, and Damascus.




  • Acre
    Sunday May 27, 1832
    Muhammad Ali of Egypt

    Egyptian force eventually captured Acre

    Acre
    Sunday May 27, 1832

    The Egyptians overran most of Syria and its hinterland with ease. The strongest and only really significant resistance was put up at the port city of Acre. The Egyptian force eventually captured the city after a six-month siege, which lasted from 3 November 1831 to 27 May 1832. Unrest on the Egyptian home front increased dramatically during the course of the siege. Ali was forced to squeeze Egypt more and more in order to support his campaign and his people resented the increased burden.




  • Acre, Israel
    Sunday May 27, 1832
    Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

    Ibrahim Pasha took Acre

    Acre, Israel
    Sunday May 27, 1832

    He took Acre after a severe siege on May 27, 1832.


  • Central Europe (Present-Day Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
    1832
    German revolutions of 1848–1849

    Hambacher Festival

    Central Europe (Present-Day Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
    1832

    The Hambacher Festival was a German national democratic festival celebrated from 27 May to 30 May 1832 at Hambach Castle, near Neustadt an der Weinstraße, in present-day Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The event was disguised as a nonpolitical county fair.


  • New York, U.S.
    1832
    Elizabeth Blackwell

    Family emigrated from Bristol to New York

    New York, U.S.
    1832

    In 1832, the family emigrated from Bristol, England to New York because Samuel Blackwell had lost their most profitable sugar refinery to a fire.


  • Ottoman Empire
    Sep, 1832
    Ottoman Empire

    320 km from the capital, Constantinople

    Ottoman Empire
    Sep, 1832

    Thus began the first Egyptian–Ottoman War (1831–1833), during which the French-trained army of Muhammad Ali Pasha, under the command of his son Ibrahim Pasha, defeated the Ottoman Army as it marched into Anatolia with a great victory, reaching the city of Kütahya within 320 km (200 mi) of the capital, Constantinople.


  • Egypt
    1832
    Muhammad Ali of Egypt

    School of Medicine for women

    Egypt
    1832

    In 1832, Muhammad Ali allowed Antoine Clot, known as "Clot Bey" in Egypt, to establish a School of Medicine for women.


  • Anatolia, Turkey
    1832
    Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

    The Egyptian army continued their campaign into Anatolia

    Anatolia, Turkey
    1832

    With the provinces of Greater Syria under his control, the Egyptian army continued their campaign into Anatolia in late 1832.


  • Konya, Turkey
    Wednesday Nov 21, 1832
    Ibrahim Pasha of Egypt

    The Battle of Konya

    Konya, Turkey
    Wednesday Nov 21, 1832

    On 21 November 1832, the Egyptian forces occupied the city of Konya in central Anatolia, within striking distance of the imperial capital of Constantinople.


  • Konya, Ottoman Empire
    Friday Dec 21, 1832
    Muhammad Ali of Egypt

    Battle of Konya

    Konya, Ottoman Empire
    Friday Dec 21, 1832

    After the fall of Acre, the Egyptian army marched north into Anatolia. At the Battle of Konya (21 December 1832), Ibrahim Pasha soundly defeated the Ottoman army led by the sadr azam Grand Vizier Reshid Pasha. There were now no military obstacles between Ibrahim's forces and Constantinople itself.


  • Central Europe (Present-Day Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
    1832
    German revolutions of 1848–1849

    Events leading up to the revolution of the 1848

    Central Europe (Present-Day Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany)
    1832

    The groundwork of the 1848 uprising was laid as early as the Hambacher Fest of 1832 when public unrest began to grow in the face of heavy taxation and political censorship. The Hambacher Fest is also noteworthy for the Republicans adopting the black-red-gold colors used on today's national flag of Germany as a symbol of the Republican movement and of the unity among the German-speaking people.


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