1892 in Wales

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1892 in Wales
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1892 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1892

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1892 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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.
Gomer Press is established at Llandysul.
Construction of the Parc and Dare Theatre (as a workingmen's institute).

Baseball - The Welsh Baseball Union is founded.
Football — The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the fourth time in its 13-year history.

23 March — Jack Whitfield, Wales rugby union captain (died 1927)
15 May — Jimmy Wilde, professional boxer (died 1969)
20 June — Geoffrey Crawshay, soldier and social benefactor (died 1954)
25 July — Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, soldier and medical administrator (died 1973)
12 August — Jerry Shea, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player (died 1947)
18 September - Joe Johns, Welsh lightweight boxing champion (died 1927)
12 November — Tudor Davies, operatic tenor (died 1958)
19 November — Huw T. Edwards, trade union leader and politician (died 1970)
date unknown — Hilda Vaughan, novelist (died 1985)

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