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1860 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
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Decades:
  
1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1860 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 27 February — A paddle steamer, Nimrod, is wrecked off St David's Head, and 45 people are killed.
  • 7 March — HMS Howe, the Royal Navy’s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line, is launched at Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.
  • 3 August — Consecration of Marble Church, Bodelwyddan.
  • 1 December — The sixth underground explosion in the Risca Black Vein Pit at Crosskeys in the Sirhowy Valley of Monmouthshire kills 142 coal miners.
  • Opening of the Gwili Valley railway.
  • A statue of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey is added to the column built in his honour by Thomas Harrison earlier in the century.
  • Four gun batteries are installed on Flat Holm.
  • Discovery of Gwynfynydd Gold Mine gold mine at Dolgellau.
  • Founding of the Hafod Copperworks.
  • Big Pit at Blaenavon opened.
  • Mosque founded in Cardiff Bay by Sheikh Abdullah Hakimi.
  • Excavation of Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles.
  • approx. date — Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey adopts the long form of its name.

    • Awards

  • At the Denbigh eisteddfod, a decision is made to launch a national eisteddfod.
  • An eisteddfod is held at Utica, New York.

    • New books

  • John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Hwyr
  • Thomas Phillips — The Welsh Revival: Its Origin and Development
  • William Rowlands — Dammeg y Mab Afradlon

    • Music

  • John Owen (Owain Alaw) — Gems of Welsh Melody (including the first Welsh lyric for March of the Men of Harlech, written by John Jones (Talhaiarn))

    • Sport

  • The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.
  • Oswestry Town F.C. is founded.

    • Births

  • 21 February – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor (died 1952)
  • 25 March – Jack Powell, footballer (died 1947
  • 29 March – Edward Peake, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
  • 14 April – Howell Elvet Lewis (Elved), poet and archdruid (died 1953)
  • 19 April – William Penfro Rowlands, composer (died 1937)
  • 12 May – Sir John Ballinger, librarian (died 1933)
  • 24 May – Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, lawyer and politician (died 1926)
  • 6 June – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet (died 1944)
  • 30 July – Richard Summers, Wales rugby union international (died 1941)
  • 6 September – George Florance Irby, 6th Baron Boston, landowner and scientist (died 1941)
  • 25 September – Thomas Francis Roberts, academic (died 1919)
  • 31 December – Horace Lyne, Wales international rugby player and WRU president (died 1949)
  • date unknown
  • James Colton, anarchist (died 1936)
  • Sir William Price (died 1938)

    • Deaths

  • 4 May – William Ormsby-Gore, politician, 81
  • 17 July – Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse, 71
  • 13 November - David Dale Owen, geologist in the USA, 53

    • References

    1860 in Wales Wikipedia
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