Centuries: 18th century - 19th century - 20th century
Decades: 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s - 1830s - 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
Years: 1832 1833 1834 1835 1836 - 1837 - 1838 1839 1840 1841 1842
Births:
- Lucas Barrett, naturalist
Deaths:
- Saint Herman of Alaska
- February 7 - Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden
- March 31 - John Constable, painter
- June 20 - William IV of the United Kingdom
- October 5 - Hortense de Beauharnais Queen of Holland and mother of the Emperor Napoleon III of France
Events:
- February 11 - American Physiological Society organizes in Boston
- August 16 - Dutch sack of the fortress of Bonjol, ending the Padri War
- Samuel Morse invents the telegraph
- Queen Victoria - monarch of the United Kingdom ascends to the throne
- Martin Van Buren succeeds Andrew Jackson as the President of the United States of America.
- In the Canadas, William Lyon Mackenzie leads the Upper Canada Rebellion and Louis-Joseph Papineau leads the Patriotes Rebellion.