1864 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1864 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

June - David Lloyd George's father dies and his family move from Pembrokeshire to Llanystumdwy to be cared for by his maternal uncle, Richard Lloyd, when he is aged 18 months.
June 23 - Aberystwyth is linked to the rail network for the first time.
October 6 - The Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway is completed throughout to Corwen.
David Davies Llandinam takes a lease of coal in the Upper Rhondda Valley and sinks the Parc and Maindy pits.
Opening of Rhosydd Quarry narrow gauge railway incline on the upper Croesor Tramway at the head of the Croesor valley.
The Llandudno Improvement Commissioners attempt to ban Punch and Judy shows. In this year, the town first receives the title "Queen of Welsh Resorts".

National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Llandudno. The chair is won by Richard Foulkes Edwards.

R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan
Sir John Henry Philipps - Lyrics
Alfred Russel Wallace - The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of Natural Selection
Frances Williams-Wynn - ''Diaries of a Lady of Quality''

Cricket
*South Wales Cricket Club play Gentlemen of Sussex. The South Wales team includes W. G. Grace, who scores 170.
Football
*October 22 - The predecessor of Wrexham A.F.C. plays its first match, making it the oldest association football club in Wales and the world's sixth oldest football club.

January 8
*Prince Albert Victor, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales
*Thomas Allen Glenn, soldier and historian
February 7 - Alfred Augustus Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player
March 11 - John Silas Evans, astronomer
May 4 - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player
June 5 - Edward Pegge, Wales international rugby player
July 5 - Lloyd Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon
August 19 - Charles Green, first Bishop of Monmouth
September 15
* Fred Andrews, Wales international rugby player
* Giotto Griffiths, Wales international rugby player
September 21 - Ernest Rowland, priest and Wales international rugby player
October 10
*Edward Bishop - Wales international rugby union player
*Arthur Gould - Wales international rugby union captain
October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian
November 4 - Margaret Owen, later wife of David Lloyd George