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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1932 to Wales and its people.

25 January - Leif Jones is created Baron Rhayader.
1 March (Saint David's Day) - Members of Plaid Cymru on two occasions replace the Union Jack flying over Caernarfon Castle with a flag displaying the red Welsh Dragon.^[1]
Plaid Cymru adopts self-government as its official policy.
The Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl, is built.
Hilary Marquand’s economic surveys of South Wales highlight the depressed conditions in the area during the Great Depression in the United Kingdom.

W. Bradwen - Mab yr ystorm
Grace Williams
- Suite for orchestra
- Two Psalms for contralto, harp and strings^[2]

13 June - Port Talbot-born English actress Peg Entwistle signs a contract with RKO in the United States.
16 September - Peg Entwistle commits suicide by jumping from the letter "H" of the giant Hollywoodland sign.
Edmund Gwenn appears in Tell Me Tonight, Money for Nothing, Condemned to Death, Love on Wheels, Lord Babs and Frail Women.

Boxing
- 3 February - Jack Petersen beats Dick Power to take the Welsh heavyweight title.
- 23 May - Jack Petersen wins the British light-heavyweight title.
- 12 July - Jack Petersen wins the British heavyweight title.

27 February - Dicky Owen, Wales rugby union international (born 1876)
3 March - Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist, 80
10 April - Gwyn Thomas, cricketer, 41
14 May - John Hughes, composer of Cwm Rhondda^[3]
27 May - M. C. Jones, racing driver, 37 (killed during qualification for Indianapolis 500)
20 July - Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion, 41
10 July - Martha Hughes Cannon, Welsh-born US physician, politician and campaigner, 75
23 July - Tenby Davies, half-mile world champion runner, 48
30 August - Conway Rees, Wales rugby union international, 62
11 September - Aneurin Rees Wales rugby union international, 74
16 September - Peg Entwistle, actress
26 October - William Howell Davies, merchant and politician, 80
25 November - John Williams, recipient of the Victoria Cross

^ Hughes, T. Meirion (2014). "The Red Dragon Saga". Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time. Talybont: Y Lolfa. pp. 96–106. ISBN 978-1-847-71930-0.
^ Evans, John (2009). Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938. London: Faber & Faber. p. 174.
^ Rhondda Cynon Taf: History of Pontypridd. Accessed 14 June 2014

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 ===New books===
 *[[Richard Ithamar Aaron]] - ''Hanes Athroniaeth''
+*[[Elisabeth Inglis-Jones]] - ''Crumbling Pageant''
 *[[T. H. Parry-Williams]] - ''Canu Rhydd Cynnar''
 *[[Howard Spring]] - ''Darkie and Co.''