1732

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  • February 23 - First performance of Handel's Orlando, in London
  • June 9 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. [1]
  • December 7 - The original Covent Garden Theatre Royal (now the Royal Opera House) is opened
  • Genoa regains Corsica
  • 139 members of the Paris Parlement are exiled by order of the King, but are eventually triumphant over the Crown, and secure their recall in December
  • Cobalt discovered

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