1892 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – Alexandra
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd

  Events

• January – The children's magazine Cymru'r Plant is launched by Owen Morgan Edwards.
• 5 March – St Michael's & All Angels Theological College is founded at Aberdare.
• 30 May – The South Wales Argus, published in Newport, is launched.
• 14 July – Official inauguration of the Liverpool water supply from Lake Vyrnwy. The Vyrnwy dam is the first high masonry gravity dam in Britain.
• 13 September – The Watkin Path up Snowdon is officially opened by William Ewart Gladstone.
• 14 September – The Cardiff water supply from Cantref Reservoir is officially inaugurated by the Mayor of Merthyr Tydfil.
• date unknown
• *J.D. Lewis establishes the Gomer Press at Llandysul.
• *The Parc and Dare Hall in Treorchy opens as a workingmen's institute and library.

  Arts and literature

Awards

• Chair – Evan Jones, "Y Cenhadwr"
• Crown – John John Roberts, "Dewi Sant"

  New books

• D Davies – Patagonia: a description of the country
• Daniel James – Caniadau Gwyrosydd
• Thomas Gwynn Jones – Eglwys y Dyn Tlawd
• John Richard Williams – Lloffion yr Amddifad

  Music

• Joseph Parry – Saul of Tarsus
• David Christmas Williams – Traeth Llafar

  Sport

• Baseball – The Welsh Baseball Union is founded.
• Football – The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the fourth time in its 13-year history.
• Golf – The course at Aberdovey is opened.

  Births

• 23 March – Jack Whitfield, Wales rugby union captain
• 15 May – Jimmy Wilde, professional boxer
• 12 June – Hilda Vaughan, novelist
• 20 June – Geoffrey Crawshay, soldier and social benefactor
• 25 July – Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, soldier and medical administrator
• 12 August – Jerry Shea, Welsh rugby union and rugby league player
• 18 September – Joe Johns, Welsh lightweight boxing champion
• 12 November – Tudor Davies, operatic tenor
• 19 November – Huw T. Edwards, trade union leader and politician

  Deaths

• 13 February – William Davies, palaeontologist, 76
• 5 March – Theophilus Redwood, pharmacist, 85
• 15 March – Mesac Thomas, Anglican bishop in Australia, 75
• 22 April – William Williams, Presbyterian missionary in India, 33
• 24 April – :cy:John Davies |John Davies, poet, 53
• 27 April – Edward Wingfield Humphreys, Welsh-born New Zealand politician, 50/51
• 6 May – Robert J. Davies, Calvinistic Methodist leader, 52
• 5 June – Robert Rees, singer and musician, 51
• 19 June – Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn, industrialist and politician, 78
• 3 October – :cy:William Davies |William Davies, poet and historian, 61
• 26 November – Edward Matthews, minister and author, 79
• 18 December – Richard Owen, anatomist, 88
• 23 December – John Gibson, architect of the Marble Church, Bodelwyddan, 75
• 27 December – Samuel Holland, politician, 89