Timeline May 1832

Events in May 1832 3

• 1769 – 1832 Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) Died 13 May 1832, aged 62 Cuvier was a French naturalist widely regarded as the founder of comparative anatomy and vertebrate paleontology. He established extinction as a scientific fact and pioneered the use of fossils to reconstruct ancient life. He died in Paris after a sudden illness during the cholera epidemic.
• 1811 – 1832 Évariste Galois (1811-1832) Died 31 May 1832, aged 20 Galois was a French mathematician whose work laid the foundations of group theory and what became known as Galois theory. He died of wounds from a duel in Paris at the age of twenty, under circumstances that remain disputed. Most of his mathematical writings were only recognized as groundbreaking after his death.
• 1832 – 1862 Otto of Greece First King of modern Greece Otto became the first king of independent Greece after liberation from the Ottoman Empire.