1862 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1862 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

January - South Wales Railway merges with the Great Western Railway.
May 5 - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, makes an important speech on the subject of education in Wales. He is later appointed vice-president of the Committee of Council on Education.
Guillermo Rawson, Interior Minister of Argentina, meets Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones to discuss the Welsh colonisation of Patagonia.
The Jubilee Tower (Moel Famau) collapses in a storm.
Completion of the railway between Merthyr Tydfil and Brecon.
Llangollen is linked to the rail network for the first time.
The Clogau mine begins producing gold.

"Religion", by Joseph Edwards, and "The Tinted Venus" by John Gibson are among sculptures shown at the Great Exhibition.

Cricket
- July 21 - South Wales Cricket Club defeat Surrey at The Oval.
- July 24 - South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's.

January 16 - Leifchild Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader, politician (d. 1939)
January 5 - John Fisher, Celtic scholar (d. 1930)
February 16 - Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb, academic (d. 1915)
April 11 - Charles Evans Hughes, American politician of Welsh parentage (d. 1948)
May 17 - Sir William Rice Edwards, surgeon (d. 1923)
October 27 - Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral (d. 1928)
December 9 - John John Evans, journalist (d. 1942)
date unknown - John Daniel Evans, Patagonia settler (d. 1943)