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| 1932 |
| | | The French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson has his first exhibition, in the Julien Levy Gallery in New York | |
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| 1932 |
| | | US poet Archibald MacLeish publishes a narrative epic, Conquistador, about the conquest of Mexico | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Charles and Anne Lindbergh's one-year-old son, Charles Jr, is kidnapped and subsequently found murdered | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Japan renames the Chinese province of Manchuria, calling it Manchukuo – supposedly independent but in fact a puppet state | |
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| 1932 |
| | | The Chaco War breaks out between Bolivia and Paraguay, in dispute over the swampy plain known as the Gran Chaco | |
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| 1932 |
| | | One of the defining landmarks of Sydney, in Australia, is opened – the single-span steel arch bridge across the city's harbour | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Adolf Hitler stands for election as president of the German republic and wins 36% of the vote | |
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| 1932 |
| | | The newly formed Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo opens for its first season, with George Balanchine as ballet master | |
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| 1932 |
| | | John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton are the first to split an atom, by bombarding it with accelerated protons | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes prime minister of Portugal with dictatorial powers | |
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