Timeline March 1832

Events in March 1832 2

• 1749 – 1832 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe German writer and statesman Goethe wrote Faust and shaped German literature through poetry, drama, and philosophical writings that defined European Romanticism.
• 1832 Cholera epidemic devastates Paris Second cholera pandemic reaches Western Europe An outbreak of Asiatic cholera struck Paris in the spring of 1832, killing around 20,000 people in the city within months, including Prime Minister Casimir Pierre Périer. The epidemic was part of the second cholera pandemic, which spread from Asia through Europe and crossed the Atlantic to Quebec and New York later that year. It caused widespread panic and prompted early public health reforms.