1862 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1862 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
Music
Sport
Births
- 5 January — John Fisher, Celtic scholar (d. 1930)
- 16 January — Leifchild Jones, 1st Baron Rhayader, politician (d. 1939)
- 17 January — Buckley Roderick, Wales international rugby player (d. 1908)
- 23 January — Evan Richards, Wales international rugby player (d. 1931)
- 1 February — Thomas Pryce-Jenkins, Wales international rugby player (d. 1922)
- 16 February — Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb, academic (d. 1915)
- 22 March — Edward Treharne, Wales international rugby player (d. 1904)
- 11 April — Charles Evans Hughes, American politician of Welsh parentage (d. 1948)
- 27 April — Sir Hugh Vincent, solicitor and Wales international rugby player (d. 1931)
- 28 April — William Norton, Wales international rugby player (d. 1898)
- 17 May — Sir William Rice Edwards, surgeon (d. 1923)
- 5 August - Robert Mills-Roberts, footballer (d. 1935)
- 16 September — Thomas Baker Jones, Wales international rugby player (d. 1959)
- 27 October — Sir Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral (d. 1928)
- 16 November — Sir David Rocyn-Jones, medical practitioner and President of the WRU (d. 1953)
- 7 December — Humphrey Jones, footballer (d. 1946)
- 9 December — John John Evans, journalist (d. 1942)
- date unknown
- John Daniel Evans, Patagonia settler (d. 1943)
- Seth Powell, footballer (d. 1945)
Deaths
- 3 January — Dan Jones, Mormon missionary, 51
- 8 February - Hans Busk, poet, 89
- 28 May — James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor, 82
- 2 August — Anthony Hill, industrialist, 78
- 27 August — John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary, 51
- date unknown — Robert Edwards, hymn writer, 66?