1892 in Wales

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Incumbents

January — Children's magazine Cymru'r Plant launched by Owen Morgan Edwards.
5 March — St Michael's & All Angels (Anglican) Theological College is founded at Aberdare.
30 May — The South Wales Argus is launched, published in Newport.
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 — Official inauguration of the Watkin Path up Snowdon.
Gomer Press is established at Llandysul by J. D. Lewis.
Parc and Dare Hall in Treorchy opens as a workingmen's institute and library.

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 — Course at Aberdovey opened.

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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