Curated category
1832 births
- Édouard ManetEdouard Manet was born in Paris on the 23rd of January 1832, into a household where his father was a French judge who had mapped out a clear future: law…
- Lewis CarrollCharles Lutwidge Dodgson was born on the 27th of January 1832 at All Saints' Vicarage in Daresbury, Cheshire, the third oldest of 11 children, and the world…
- Nicolaus OttoNicolaus August Otto was born on the 10th of June 1832 in Holzhausen an der Haide, Germany, and he died in 1891 having transformed how the world moves.
- Maximilian I of MexicoMaximilian I of Mexico stood before a Republican firing squad on the Cerro de las Campanas on the 19th of June 1867 and handed each of his executioners a…
- Henry Steel OlcottHenry Steel Olcott was born on the 2nd of August 1832 in Orange, New Jersey, the oldest of six children in a Presbyterian household.
- Edward Burnett TylorEdward Burnett Tylor left school at age 16 with no degree, the son of a brass factory owner, raised in the Quaker faith, and seemingly headed for a life of…
- Boston CorbettBoston Corbett vanished from Kansas on the 26th of May 1888. No one ever saw him again. He had just escaped from the Topeka Asylum for the Insane, riding off…
- William W. AverellWilliam Woods Averell was born on the 5th of November 1832, in Cameron, New York, and before he was done, he would be the only Union general to win a major…
- Mary Edwards WalkerMary Edwards Walker was born on the 26th of November 1832 in the Town of Oswego, New York. Her parents Alvah and Vesta raised their children with a…
- Gustave DoréGustave Doré created over 10,000 illustrations across his lifetime, and at the peak of his career he kept some 40 block-cutters employed just to translate…