1832 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1832 to Wales and its people.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
[edit] Events
- In the UK general election, John Josiah Guest becomes the first MP for the new constituency of Merthyr Boroughs.
- At the Beaumaris eisteddfod, the title of Archdruid is used for the first time.
- The first temperance society in Wales is founded at Holyhead.
- Serious outbreak of cholera in Wales.
- Wrexham Infirmary is founded at the instigation of Thomas Taylor Griffith.
- Princess Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, visit Wynnstay.
- Walter Coffin opens the "Rhondda No. 3" coal seam.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New books
- Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) - Amddiffyniad o Brynedigaeth Neillduol
- Jedediah Richards - Addysg ac Amddiffyniad
[edit] Music
[edit] Births
- January 5 - Love Jones-Parry, politician and Patagonian settler (d. 1891)
- April 3 - William Thomas (Islwyn), poet (d. 1878)
- September 25 - John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (d. 1887)
[edit] Deaths
- August 14 - Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), poet, 63
