1860s in Wales

Incumbents

Prince of Wales – Albert Edward

Princess of Wales – Alexandra (from 1863)

Events

1860

1861

1862

1863

1864

1865

1866

1867

1868

1869

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales

1861 - Aberdare

1862 - Caernarfon

1863 - Swansea

1864 - Llandudno

1865 - Aberystwyth

1866 - Chester

1867 - Carmarthen - A crown is presented for the first time

1868 - Ruthin - The Eisteddfod Council is disbanded

1869 - Holywell

New books

R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan (1864)

George Borrow - Wild Wales (1862)

Rhoda Broughton - Cometh up as a Flower (1867)

Richard Davies (Mynyddog) - Caneuon Mynyddog (1866)

Huw Derfel - Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn (1864)

Robert Jones Derfel - Traethodau ac Areithiau (1864)

John Ceiriog Hughes

Oriau'r Hwyr (1860)

Oriau'r Bore (1862)

Cant o Ganeuon (1863)

Y Bardd a'r Cerddor (1865)

Oriau eraill (1868)

David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) - Yr Ysgol Farddol (1869)

William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) - Emmanuel (1861)

William Thomas (Islwyn) - Caniadau (1867)

Robert Williams (Trebor Mai)

Fy Noswyl (1861)

Geninen (1869)

Alfred Russel Wallace

The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of 'Natural Selection (1864)

The Malay Archipelago (1867)

Music

William Griffiths (Ifander) - Gwarchae Harlech (cantata) (1864)

Hugh Jerman - Deus Misereatur (1861)

Henry Brinley Richards - "God Bless the Prince of Wales" (1863)

John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia)

Llewelyn (cantata) (1863)

The Bride of Neath Valley (cantata) (1866)

Sport

1860 - The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.

Births

1860

date unknown - Sir William Price (died 1938)

1861

date unknown

John Edward Lloyd, historian (died 1947)

Thomas Mardy Rees, writer (died 1953)

1862

date unknown - John Daniel Evans, Patagonia settler

1863

January 17 - David Lloyd George, politician (died 1945)

March 3 - Arthur Machen, writer (died 1947)

1864

January 8 - Prince Albert Victor, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1892)

October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)

date unknown - Charles Alfred Howell Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)

1865

June 3 - Prince George, second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales and himself Prince of Wales 1901–1910 (later George V)

date unknown - William Brace, politician (died 1947)

1866

October 12 - James Ramsay MacDonald, politician (died 1937)

date unknown - John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes, poet and hymn-writer (died 1944)

1867

May 2 - Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (died 1926)

May 13 - Frank Brangwyn, artist (died 1956)

May 26 - Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1953)

September 29 - John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (died 1924)

1869

September 6 - Walford Davies, composer (died 1944)

date unknown

Thomas Rees, theologian (died 1926)

Osbert Fynes-Clinton, dialectologist (died 1941)

Deaths

1860

May 4 - William Ormsby-Gore, politician (born 1779)

July 17 - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (born 1789)

1861

May 8 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (born 1830)

1862

January 3 - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (born 1810)

date unknown - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary

1863

April - George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (born 1806)

1864

March 11 - Richard Roberts, engineer

August 1 - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)

date unknown

Evan Davies, missionary

Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible

1865

February 21 - Stapleton Cotton, military leader (born 1773)

1866

January 27 - John Gibson, sculptor (born 1790)

1867

April 27 - Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist (born 1802)

May 23 - William Crawshay II, industrialist (born 1788)

1868

June 22 - Owain Meirion, poet (born 1803)

date unknown - Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (born 1803)

1869

March 31 - David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr), Nonconformist leader and author

date unknown - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet (born 1810)