1882 in Wales

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• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd{{cite DWB|title=GRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894)|id=s-GRIF-DAV-1800|author=Daniel Williams|accessdate=15 December 2019}}

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk{{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse{{cite news|title=Death of Colonel Pryse|url=http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3344911/3344915/21|access-date=27 February 2018|agency=Cambrian News|date=1 June 1888|page=4}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot{{cite journal|last=Campbell|first=Thomas Methuen|title=C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890|journal=Morgannwg|date=2000|volume=44|pages=66–104|url=http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewobject/llgc-id:1174908/article/000041850|access-date=17 May 2014}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort{{cite book|author=James Henry Clark|title=History of Monmouthshire|publisher=County Observer|year=1869|page=375}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis{{cite DWB|id=s-POWY-HER-1674|title=Herbert family (earls of Powis)|author=Evan David Jones|year=1959|access-date=27 February 2022}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite

• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=292}}{{cite book |author=Thomas Duffus Hardy |title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... |publisher=University Press |year=1854 |page=266}}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant (until 16 December);
• Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones{{cite book |author=Thomas Duffus Hardy |title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... |publisher=University Press |year=1854 |page=307}}{{cite DWB | id=s-JONE-BAS-1822 | title=Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897) | access-date=21 April 2011}}

• 10 January – The vessels Constancia and Primus attempt to pass through a lock at Newport Docks at the same time and a collision results. The lock is blocked and the vessels already in the dock are trapped for nearly two weeks. The resulting losses eventually culminate in the demise of the Newport Dock Company a year later.
• February – Charles Wilkins launches the English-language periodical The Red Dragon in Cardiff.
• 11 February – Six miners are killed in an accident at the Lewis Merthyr Colliery.
• 3 March – Five miners are killed in an accident at the Henwaen Colliery, Blaina.
• 20 October
• The steamer Clan MacDuff sinks off Holyhead, resulting in 32 deaths.
• The Victory, a Bideford schooner carrying coal from Cardiff to Waterford, sinks near Ballyteique with the loss of all crew.{{cite news |title=Suspense |work=The Cornishman |issue=225 |date=2 November 1882}}
• 1 November – An Austrian barque, the Petroslava, is wrecked on Skokholm with the loss of 10 of its 11 crew members.
• 16 November – The new Fishguard Lifeboat Station boat Sir Edward Perrott is launched 5 times and rescues 46 lives from 15 different vessels.{{cite web|title=Fishguard lifeboat station|url=http://historypoints.org/index.php?page=fishguard-lifeboat-station|work=History Points|accessdate=2016-04-27}}
• Anti-Irish riots break out at Tredegar.
• Lager is brewed at Wrexham, for the first time in the UK.
• Brains Brewery opens in Cardiff.
• St Catharine's Church, Baglan, is consecrated.
• The Welsh Charity School in Ashford, Surrey, becomes girls-only and changes its name to the Welsh Girls' School.
• Plymouth Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil is closed.{{cite web|title=Plymouth Ironworks|url=http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/plymouthironworks.htm|work=Old Merthyr Tydfil|accessdate=2021-05-05}}
• Slate workings in Cwm Llan on Snowdon are closed because of the expense of transporting the slate to a port.

The Cambrian Academy of Art becomes the 'Royal Cambrian Academy of Art' after gaining patronage from Queen Victoria.

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Denbigh

• Chair – No Winner{{Cite web|title=Winners of the Chair {{!}} National Eisteddfod|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair|access-date=2021-02-27|website=eisteddfod.wales}}
• Crown – Dafydd Rees Williams

• Richard Davies (Mynyddog) – Pedwerydd Llyfr Mynyddog
• Frances Hoggan – Education for Girls in Wales

• Football
• 25 February - John Price becomes the first Welsh footballer to score a hat-trick in an international match, when he produces four of the goals in a 7–1 win against Ireland.{{cite news |title=Wales 7-1 Ireland |url=http://www.wfda.co.uk/international_details.php?id=10 |publisher=Welsh football data archive |date=25 February 1882 |access-date=23 November 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927030740/http://www.wfda.co.uk/international_details.php?id=10 |archive-date=27 September 2011 |url-status=dead}}
• Druids win the Welsh Cup for the third time in its five-year history.
• Rugby Union
• Bargoed RFC, Loughor RFC, Pentyrch RFC and Pontardawe RFC are formed.
• First Wales national game against Ireland. Result sees first Welsh victory and first points scored, by Newport's Thomas Baker Jones.

• 3 January – Johnnie Williams, Wales international rugby player (died 1916)
• 3 February – Arthur Jenkins, politician (died 1946)
• 3 February – Harry Wetter, Wales international rugby union player (died 1934)
• 11 February – Gwendoline Davies, patron of the arts (died 1951){{cite DWB|id=s2-DAVI-ELI-1882|title=Davies, Gwendoline Elizabeth (1882-1951), art collector and benefactress|author=Glyn Tegai Hughes|year=2001|access-date=2 March 2022}}
• 5 April – Howell Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1908)
• 7 May – Reggie Gibbs, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
• 24 July – Reginald Clarry, politician (died 1945){{cite book|title=The Chemical Age|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TNUmAQAAIAAJ|year=1945|page=106}}
• 6 September – Tommy Vile, Wales international rugby player (died 1958)
• 14 September – Jack Powell, Wales international rugby player (died 1941)
• 30 September – Charlie Pritchard, Wales international rugby player (died 1916)
• 13 October – Trevor Preece, cricketer (died 1965)
• 6 November – David Rees Griffiths, poet (died 1953{{cite book|title=The Carmarthenshire Antiquary: The Transactions of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m9YVNmvn6F8C|year=1999|publisher=Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society and Field Club|page=90}})
• 8 November – Jack Williams, Wales international rugby player (died 1911)
• 21 November – Harold Lowe, officer on board RMS Titanic (died 1944)
• 16 December – Cyril Fox, archaeologist (died 1967){{cite book|title=The Antiquaries Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hRNnAAAAMAAJ|year=1967|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=337}}
• 31 December – Tom Evans, Wales international rugby player (died 1955)
• date unknown – Ivor Lewis, artist (died 1958){{cite book | last = McMann | first = FirstName | title = Biographical index of artists in Canada | publisher = University of Toronto Press | location = Toronto, Ont | year = 2003 | isbn = 9780802027900 | page=136}}

• 9 January – Joseph Edwards, sculptor, 69{{Cite DWB |id=s-EDWA-JOS-1814 |title=Edwards, Joseph (1814-1882), sculptor |author=Megan Ellis|fewer-links=yes |accessdate=21 October 2020}}
• 8 March – William Bulkeley Hughes, politician, 84{{cite DWB|id=s-HUGH-BUL-1797|title=Hughes, William Bulkeley (1797-1882), Member of Parliament|author=Emyr Gwynne Jones|year=1959|access-date=2 March 2022}}
• 30 March – William Menelaus, ironworks manager, 64{{cite book|author=Sir Norman Lockyer|title=Nature|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zbk0AQAAMAAJ|year=1922|publisher=Macmillan Journals Limited|page=429}}
• 21 April – George Grant Francis, antiquary, 68{{cite DWB|id=s-FRAN-GRA-1814|title=Francis, George Grant (1814-1882), business man and antiquary|author=Henry John Randall|fewer-links=yes|access-date=7 February 2021}}
• 20 June – David Thomas, industrialist, 87{{cite DWB|id=s-THOM-DAV-1794|title=Thomas, David (1794-1882), pioneer of the iron industry in U.S.A.|author=Robert (Bob) Owen|fewer-links=yes|access-date=7 February 2021}}
• 24 June – Thomas Jones, poet-preacher, 62{{cite ODNB|id=15098|first= Mari A.|last=Williams|title=Jones, Thomas}}
• 15 July – John Petherick, engineer and traveller, 69{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Foreign Office|title=The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jA97ii5rCpIC|year=1906|publisher=Harrison and Sons|page=432}}
• 24 August – John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and photographer, 72{{cite DWB|id=s-DILL-DIL-1650|title=Dillwyn Dillwyn-Llewelyn, (Dillwyn) Venables-Llywelyn|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|fewer-links=yes|access-date=7 February 2021}}
• 8 October – Mary Davies (Mair Eifion), poet, 35{{Cite DWB |id=s-DAVI-MAR-1846 |title=Davies, Mary |author=Idwal Lewis |fewer-links=yes |accessdate=21 October 2020}}
• 21 November – Banastyre Pryce Lloyd, linguist and civil servant, 58
• 16 December – Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff, 84{{acad|id=OLVT816A|name=Ollivant, Alfred}}

• 1882 in Ireland

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