1832 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1832 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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.