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1858 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1858 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
  • Princess of Wales — vacant

    • Events

  • January
  • Teaching begins at Bangor Normal College, founded by Hugh Owen.
  • End of Aberdare Strike 1857-8 in the coal mining industry.
  • 20 April — John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is given a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.
  • June - Erection of the Town Clock at Tredegar.
  • 20 June - End of the Indian Mutiny, which Major General Charles Hinde plays a major role in suppressing.
  • 29 August — Musician Robert Davies (Asaph Llechid) is killed by a rockfall while at work in Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry.
  • 5 October - The Vale of Clwyd Railway, built by David Davies Llandinam, is opened.
  • 13 October — 20 men are killed in a mining accident at Lower Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.

    • Awards

  • "Great Eisteddfod" at Llangollen; early appearance of Gorsedd ceremony. Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) wins first prize for his poem Maes Bosworth.

    • New books

  • William Davies (Gwilym Teilo) — Llandilo-Vawr and its Neighbourhood
  • Owen Wynne Jones — Lleucu Llwyd
  • Robert Owen — An Introduction to the Study of Dogmatic Theology
  • L. M. Spooner (anonymously) — Gladys of Harlech
  • Alfred Russel Wallace — On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type

    • Music

  • Thomas Gruffydd Jones (Tafalaw Bencerdd) — Y Drysorfa Gorawl
  • Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) — Requiem

    • Births

  • 6 January — Ben Davies, singer (died 1943)
  • 28 January — Edgeworth David, explorer (died 1934)
  • 9 April — Aneurin Rees, Wales rugby union international (died 1932)
  • 15 May — B. B. Mann, Wales rugby union international (died 1948)
  • 8 October — Robert Owen Hughes (Elfyn), journalist and poet (died 1919)
  • 25 October — Tom Clapp, Wales rugby union captain
  • 30 October - Alfred Onions, politician (died 1921)
  • 18 December — Sir Owen Thomas, soldier and politician
  • 25 December — Frederick Margrave, rugby player (died 1946)
  • 26 December — Sir Owen Morgan Edwards, academic and author (died 1920)
  • 27 December — Sir John Herbert Lewis, lawyer and politician (died 1933)
  • 28 December — Josiah Towyn Jones, politician (died 1925)

    • Deaths

  • 13 May — Lewis Loyd, banker, 91
  • 4 July — Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch), lexicographer, 78
  • 16 October — Charles Norris, artist, 79
  • 17 November — Robert Owen, founder of the Co-operative Society, 87
  • 20 November — Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet, ironmaster, 75
  • 18 December — John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury, nephew of Hester Thrale, 65

    • References

    1858 in Wales Wikipedia
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