What Happened in 1832

Davis Sent to Deliver Black Hawk to Prison

The year after, Davis was dispatched to Galena, Illinois, at the head of a detachment assigned to remove miners from lands claimed by the Native... Read more

Douglas Enrolls at Canandaigua Academy

Douglas moved to a farm near Clifton Springs, New York and studied at Canandaigua Academy in 1832-33 (where he was honored posthumously in 1996 as... Read more

Lincoln Becomes a Candidate for Illinois General Assembly

Lincoln began his political career in 1832 at age 23 with an unsuccessful campaign for the Illinois General Assembly as a member of the Whig Party.... Read more

Treaty Of Cusseta Is Signed

Although the Creeks had been forced from Georgia, with many Lower Creeks moving to the Indian Territory, there were still about 20,000 Upper Creeks... Read more

Lincoln Makes First Enlistment in the Black Hawk War

His first enlistment was as elected captain of a company in the 4th Regiment of Mounted Volunteers, of Gen. Samuel Whiteside's Brigade. Lincoln... Read more

Lincoln Re-enlists in the Black Hawk War

Lincoln re-enlisted on the same day he mustered out of his old company, and was mustered in on May 29 as a private in Captain Elijah Ises' Company,... Read more

Nicolaus Otto is Born

Nikolaus August Otto (14 June 1832, Holzhausen an der Haide, Nassau - 26 January 1891, Cologne) was the German inventor of the first... Read more

Lincoln Enlists in Black Hawk War for a Third Time

Lincoln's third enlistment was as a private in Captain Jacob M. Early's "Spy Company." This unit mustered in approximately June 20, 1832, and... Read more

Amos Bronson Alcott's Daughter Is Born

Louisa May Alcott, the second daughter of Amos Bronson Alcott, teacher and transcendentalist philosopher, and Abigail May, social worker and... Read more