1832 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1832 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales — vacant
- Princess of Wales — vacant
Events
- 23 May — The Festiniog Railway Company is set up by Act of Parliament, making it, as of the 21st century, the world's oldest surviving statutory public railway company.
- 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.
- New Cardiff Prison opens.
- Princess Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, visit Wynnstay.
- Walter Coffin opens the "Rhondda No. 3" coal seam.
Arts and literature
New books
- Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) — Amddiffyniad o Brynedigaeth Neillduol
- Jedediah Richards — Addysg ac Amddiffyniad
Music
Births
- 5 January – Love Jones-Parry, politician and Patagonian settler (d. 1891)
- 3 April – William Thomas (Islwyn), poet (d. 1878)
- 25 September – John Ceiriog Hughes, poet (d. 1887)
- 19 November – Benjamin Thomas Williams, lawyer and politician (d. 1890)
- 17 December – Thomas McKenny Hughes, geologist (d. 1917)
- date unknown – William Williams, veterinary surgeon (d. 1900)
Deaths
- 23 February – Owen Williams (MP), 67
- 13 May – John Nash, architect, 83
- July – Jemima Nicholas, heroine, c.82
- 14 August – Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), poet, 63
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