1832 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1832 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
- Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
- Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
- Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey
- Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson
Events
- 13 January — The Welshman (newspaper) is first published in Carmarthen.
- May — Second cholera pandemic reaches Wales, at Flint.
- 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.
- August - Princess Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent, visit Wynnstay.
- 28 August - At the Beaumaris eisteddfod, the title of Archdruid is used for the first time.
- 8 December–8 January 1833 — In the 1832 United Kingdom general election, the first following the Reform Act 1832, John Josiah Guest becomes the first MP for the new constituency of Merthyr Boroughs.
- The first temperance society in Wales is founded at Holyhead.
- Wrexham Infirmary is founded at the instigation of Thomas Taylor Griffith.
- New Cardiff Prison opens.
- Walter Coffin opens the "Rhondda No. 3" coal seam.
Arts and literature
New books
- Benjamin Jones — Amddiffyniad o Brynedigaeth Neillduol
- Jedediah Richards — ''Addysg ac Amddiffyniad''
Births
- 5 January – Love Jones-Parry, politician and Patagonian settler
- 3 April – William Thomas (Islwyn), poet
- 25 September – John Ceiriog Hughes, poet
- 4 November – James James, harpist and composer
- 19 November – Benjamin Thomas Williams, lawyer and politician
- 17 December – Thomas McKenny Hughes, geologist
- date unknown – William Williams, veterinary surgeon
Deaths
- 23 February – Owen Williams (MP), 67
- 16 July – Jemima Nicholas, heroine, 82
- 14 August – Evan Pritchard, poet, 63
- 18 November – William Howels or Howells, evangelical preacher, 54