* 1792 – Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor ( b. 1732 )

At Nuremberg in 1733, he published a collection of 316 observations of the aurora borealis made by himself and others over the period 1716 – 1732.

Bernard of Clairvaux ( 1090 – 1153 ), in a 1700 painting by Georg Andreas Wasshuber ( 1650 – 1732 ) on display at Heiligenkreuz Abbey.

* Constantine II of Kakheti ( died 1732 ), King of Kakheti 1722 – 1732

* Richard Cumberland ( dramatist ) ( 1732 – 1811 ), civil servant and dramatist

* 1732 – The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London.

* 1732 – John Gay, English poet and dramatist ( b. 1685 )

Under King Agaja ( ruled 1708 – 1732 ), the kingdom conquered Allada, where the ruling family originated.

Ecological concepts such as food chains, population regulation, and productivity were first developed in the 1700s, through the published works of microscopist Antoni van Leeuwenhoek ( 1632 – 1723 ) and botanist Richard Bradley ( 1688 ?– 1732 ).

* 1732 – George Washington, First President of the United States ( d. 1799 )

* 1732 – Francis Marion, American Revolutionary War officer ( d. 1795 )

* 1669 – Louis Marchand, French organist and harpsichordist ( d. 1732 )

* 1732 – Johann Christian Kittel, German organist, composer, and teacher ( d. 1809 )

La Fontaine's model was subsequently emulated by England's John Gay ( 1685 – 1732 ); Poland's Ignacy Krasicki ( 1735 – 1801 ); Italy's Lorenzo Pignotti ( 1739 – 1812 ) and Giovanni Gherardo de Rossi ( 1754 – 1827 ); Serbia's Dositej Obradović ( 1742 – 1811 ); Spain's Félix María de Samaniego ( 1745 – 1801 ) and Tomás de Iriarte y Oropesa ( 1750 – 1791 ); France's Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian ( 1755 – 94 ); and Russia's Ivan Krylov ( 1769 – 1844 ).

The encoding of data by discrete bits was used in the punched cards invented by Basile Bouchon and Jean-Baptiste Falcon ( 1732 ), developed by Joseph Marie Jacquard ( 1804 ), and later adopted by Semen Korsakov, Charles Babbage, Hermann Hollerith, and early computer manufacturers like IBM.

The first insurance company in the United States underwrote fire insurance and was formed in Charles Town ( modern-day Charleston ), South Carolina, in 1732.

In 1732 Empress Anna of Russia, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI and King Frederick William I of Prussia, irritated with Augustus but unwilling to allow Stanisław to become king, secretly signed Löwenwolde's Treaty, in which they agreed to jointly back the candidacy of Infante Manuel of Portugal for the Polish throne.

* November 11 – André Charles Boulle, French cabinet-maker ( d. 1732 )

Charles Lee ( February 6, 1732 – October 2, 1782 ) was a British soldier who served as a General of the Continental Army during the American War of Independence.

In 1732 the proprietary governor of Maryland, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, signed a provisional agreement with William Penn's sons, which drew a line somewhere in between and renounced the Calvert claim to Delaware.

In 1732 Charles Calvert signed a territorial agreement with William Penn's sons that drew a line somewhere in between the two colonies and also renounced Calvert's claim to Delaware.

Charles made a grand entrance to the Medici capital of Florence on 9 March 1732 with a retinue of 250 people.

Pierre La Vérendrye established a secure French trading post, Fort St. Charles, to the south of present-day Kenora near the current Canada / U. S. border in 1732, and France maintained the post until 1763 when it lost the territory to the British in the Seven Years ' War — until then, it was the most northwesterly settlement of New France.

* Charles Lee ( general ) ( 1732 – 1782 ), Anglo-American soldier of the American Revolutionary War

* Charles Boyle, 2nd Viscount Blesington ( died 1732 ), Irish politician

* Benedict Leonard Calvert ( 1700 – 1732 ), the proprietary governor of the Maryland colony from 1727 through 1731, appointed by his brother, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore.

In 1732 the title Count ( Graf ) Bentinck, of the Holy Roman Empire, was created by Emperor Charles VI for William Bentinck, Baron Bentinck in the Duchy of Guelders and second surviving son of Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland.

* Sholto Charles Douglas, 15th Earl of Morton ( 1732 – 1774 )

* Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin and 9th Earl of Kincardine ( 1732 – 1771 )

* Charles Bruce, 5th Earl of Elgin and 9th Earl of Kincardine ( 1732 – 1771 )

Le Parnasse François, a famous 1732 book by Évrard Titon du Tillet, contains an account of Chambonnières's visit: apparently Louis, François, and Charles visited Chambonnières on the feast of Saint James — Chambonnières ' name day — and offered the host and his guests a short concert, playing several pieces composed by Louis.

** Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning ( 1697 – 1732 )

* 1732: Fort St. Charles, on Lake of the Woods was constructed by La Vérendrye's nephew, Christopher Dufrost de La Jemeraye and his eldest son Jean Baptiste de La Vérendrye.

The Rockingham Whigs or Rockinghamite Whigs in 18th century British politics were a faction of the Whigs led by Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, when he was the opposition leader in the House of Lords during the government of Lord North ( 1732 – 1792 ) from 1770 to 1782 and during the two Rockingham ministries of 1765-66 and 1782.

The French built Fort Saint Charles nearby in 1732.

Robert's son William ( 1652 – 1732 ), who married a natural daughter of Charles II, was the second earl, and, like his father, was in high favour with the Stuarts.

Benedict Leonard Calvert ( 1700 – 1732 ), Governor of the Maryland colony from 1727 through 1731, appointed by his brother, Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore.

In 1721 Charles came of age and assumed personal control of Maryland, travelling there briefly in 1732.

Lee was born in Westmoreland County to Thomas Lee and Hannah Harrison Ludwell Lee on January 20, 1732.

* Charles Lee ( general ) ( 1732 – 1782 ), American Revolutionary War general

His brothers, all also active within the Continental Congress, were Arthur Lee ( 1740 – 1792 ), Francis Lightfoot Lee ( 1734 – 1797 ) and Richard Henry Lee ( 1732 – 1794 ).

His brothers, Richard Henry Lee ( 1732 – 1794 ), Francis Lightfoot Lee ( 1734 – 1797 ) and William Lee ( 1739 – 1795 ), were also Revolutionary-era diplomats.

As of February 2011, a total of 1732 students attended Lee.

Richard Henry Lee ( 1732 – 94 ) and Francis Lightfoot Lee ( 1734 – 97 ), both of whom were delegates from Virginia to the Second Continental Congress, were signers of the Declaration of Independence.

Members of the family include Thomas Lee ( 1690 – 1750 ), a founder of the Ohio Company and a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses ; Francis Lightfoot Lee ( 1734 – 1797 ) and Richard Henry Lee ( 1732 – 1794 ), signers of the United States Declaration of Independence ; Thomas Sim Lee ( 1745 – 1819 ), Governor of Maryland and, most famous, General Robert E. Lee ( 1807 – 1870 ) Confederate States of America commander in the United States Civil War.

Richard Henry Lee, ( 1732 – 1794 ), was a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and served as the sixth President of the United States in Congress assembled under the Articles of Confederation.

Thomas Ludwell Lee ( 1730 – 1778 ) was a member of the Virginia Delegates and a major editor of George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights ( 1776 ), a precursor to the United States Declaration of Independence, which was signed by his brothers Richard Henry Lee ( 1732 – 1794 ) and Francis Lightfoot Lee ( 1734 – 1797 ).