1862 in Wales

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

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales — The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Princess of Wales — vacant

Events

Plaque at Llandudno Lighthouse, erected 1862

• January — South Wales Railway merges with the Great Western Railway.
• 5 May — 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.
• 2 June — Llangollen is linked to the rail network for the first time.
• 4 July — Sarah Edith Wynne, noted soprano, makes her London début.
• Guillermo Rawson, Interior Minister of Argentina, meets Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones to discuss the Welsh colonisation of Patagonia.
• The incomplete Moel Famau Jubilee Tower collapses in a storm.
• Completion of the railway between Merthyr Tydfil and Brecon.
• The Clogau mine begins producing gold.
• Llandudno lighthouse is erected by the Mersey Docks Harbour Board.

Arts and literature

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

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Caernarfon. The chair is won by Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn).

New books

• George Borrow — Wild Wales
• Rees Howell Gronow — Reminiscences of Captain Gronow
• John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Bore
• Jane Williams (Ysgafell) — Celtic Fables, Fairy Tales and Legends versified

Music

• Henry Brinley Richards — "God Bless the Prince of Wales"
• Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) — Hymnau

Sport

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

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?