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

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell^[2]
• 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^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^[12][2][13]

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell^[14][15]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston^[16]
• Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey^[17][18][16]
• Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson^{[16][19][20][21]}

• 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,^[22] 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.

• 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)^[24]
• 4 November – James James (Iago ap Ieuan), harpist and composer (d. 1902)
• 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^[25]
• 16 July – Jemima Nicholas, heroine, 82^[26]
• 14 August – Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), poet, 63
• 18 November – William Howels or Howells, evangelical preacher, 54^[27]

• 1832 in Ireland