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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1832 to Wales and its people.
Prince of Wales — vacant
Princess of Wales — vacant
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.
Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) — Amddiffyniad o Brynedigaeth Neillduol
Jedediah Richards — Addysg ac Amddiffyniad
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)
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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