1892 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1892 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- 14 July — Official inauguration of the Liverpool water supply from Lake Vyrnwy. The Vyrnwy dam is the first high masonry gravity dam in Britain.
- St Michael's & All Angels Theological College is founded at Aberdare.
- The South Wales Argus is launched, published in Newport.
- Children's magazine, Cymru'r Plant, launched by Owen Morgan Edwards.
- Construction of the Parc and Dare Theatre (as a workingmen's institute).
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales — held at Rhyl
New books
Music
- Joseph Parry — Saul of Tarsus (oratorio)
- David Christmas Williams — Traeth Llafar (cantata)
Sport
Births
Deaths
- 5 March — Theophilus Redwood, pharmacist, 85
- 24 April — John Davies (Ossian Gwent), poet, 53
- 5 June — Robert Rees, singer and musician, 51
- 19 June — Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, industrialist and politician, 78
- 18 December — Richard Owen, anatomist, 88
- 27 December — Samuel Holland, politician, 89