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1861 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1861 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • June - In a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Richard Grosvenor becomes MP for Flintshire, holding it on behalf of the Liberals.
  • July - Baner ac Amserau Cymru begins twice-weekly publication.
  • Japanese knotweed is recorded at Maesteg - the first record of it growing wild in the UK.
  • Excavation of Long Hole Cave in Glamorgan reveals prehistoric flint artefacts.
  • Pryce Pryce-Jones starts his mail order company in Newtown, Montgomeryshire.
  • David Davies Llandinam builds the Oswestry and Newtown railway.
  • John Dillwyn-Llewelyn marries Caroline Hicks Beach.
  • Griffith John becomes the first Christian missionary to penetrate into central China.

    • Awards

  • The first National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Aberdare. The chair is won by Lewis William Lewis.

    • New books

  • Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delaney, ed. Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover
  • Griffith Jones (Glan Menai) - Hywel Wyn
  • John Jones (Vulcan) - Athrawiaeth yr Iawn
  • David Owen (Brutus) - Cofiant y Diweddar Barch. Thomas Williams
  • Thomas Rees - History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales: From Its Rise to the Present Time
  • William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) - Emmanuel
  • Jane Williams (Ysgafell) - The Literary Women of England
  • Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) - Fy Noswyl

    • Music

  • Hugh Jerman - Deus Misereatur

    • Sport

  • Cricket
  • 18 July - South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's.

    • Births

  • 1 January - John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr), journalist (died 1899)
  • 2 January (in Oswestry) – William Henry Griffith Thomas, clergyman and academic (died 1924)
  • 22 March - Dick Kedzlie, Wales international rugby player (died 1920)
  • 7 April - Clara Novello Davies, singer (died 1943)
  • 5 May - John Edward Lloyd, historian (died 1947)
  • 31 July at Garneddwen - Alfred William Hughes, surgeon and founder of the Welsh Hospital in South Africa
  • 10 September - Sir John Lynn-Thomas, surgeon (died 1939)
  • 19 September - Evan Roberts, Wales international rugby player (died 1927)
  • 26 October - Richard Griffith (Carneddog), writer (died 1947)
  • 28 December - David Gwynn, Wales international rugby player (died 1897)
  • date unknown
  • Reginald Brooks-King, archer (died 1936)
  • William Stadden, rugby player (died 1906)
  • John Williams, politician (died 1922)

    • Deaths

  • 6 February - Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet, 84
  • 8 May - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician, 31
  • 17 May - Ellis Owen Ellis, artist, 48?
  • 2 August - Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, statesman, 50
  • 26 September - Morris Davies (Meurig Ebrill), poet, 71
  • 25 October - Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet, former MP for Pembroke, 69

    • References

    1861 in Wales Wikipedia
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