1864 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1864 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

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.^[1]
October 6 - The Denbigh, Ruthin and Corwen Railway is completed throughout to Corwen.^[1]
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".^[2]

R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan
Huw Derfel - Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn
Robert Jones Derfel - Traethodau ac Areithiau
Daniel Silvan Evans (ed.) - Y Marchog Crwydrad: Hen Ffuglith Gymreig
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 (posthumously published)

Cricket
- South Wales Cricket Club play Gentlemen of Sussex. The South Wales team includes W. G. Grace, who scores 170.
Football
- The predecessor of Wrexham F.C. is believed to have been founded.

January 8
- Prince Albert Victor, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1892)
- Thomas Allen Glenn, soldier and historian (died 1948)
February 7 - Alfred Augustus Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player (died 1946)
March 11 - John Silas Evans, astronomer (died 1953)
May 4 - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player (died 1913)
June 5 - Edward Pegge, Wales international rugby player (died 1915)
July 5 - Lloyd Kenyon, 4th Baron Kenyon (died 1927)
August 19 - Charles Alfred Howell Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)
September 15
- Fred Andrews, Wales international rugby player (died 1929)
- Giotto Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
September 21 - Ernest Rowland, priest and Wales international rugby player (died 1940)
October 10
- Edward Bishop - Wales International rugby union player (died 1919)
- Arthur Gould - Wales International rugby union captain (died 1919)
October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)
November 4 - Margaret Owen, later wife of David Lloyd George (died 1941)

March 11 - Richard Roberts, engineer, 74
March 28 - Ellis Evans, Baptist minister and author, 77
June 18
- Evan Davies, missionary, 59
- William Smith O'Brien, Irish nationalist, 60
June 20 - John Davies (Brychan), poet, 79
July 24 - Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, 59
August 1 - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)
December 29 - Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible, 80

^ ^a ^b Quick, Michael (2009). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5.
^ Jones, Ivor Wynne. "Chapter 3". Llandudno Queen of Welsh Resorts. p. 19. Liverpool Mercury.