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1866 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1866 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 31 March — The last public execution in Wales takes place as Robert Coe is hanged in Swansea.
  • July — Launch of Yr Australydd, a Welsh language Calvinistic Methodist newspaper, in Victoria (Australia), edited by William Meirion Evans and Theophilus Williams.
  • 5 September — The Pembroke and Tenby Railway is extended for passengers to Whitland.
  • 6 September — Six people are killed in a railway derailment near Criccieth.
  • September — The song Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau — later to become the official national anthem of Wales — is sung for the first time at the National Eisteddfod held at Chester.
  • 17 October — First confirmed death from a cholera epidemic in Carnarvon.
  • Sir George Gilbert Scott begins work on the renovation of Bangor Cathedral.
  • The Baptist Union of Wales is established.
  • Whiteford Lighthouse on Gower, the only wave-swept cast-iron lighthouse ever built in the UK, is first lit.
  • Edward Gordon Douglas is created Baron Penrhyn.

    • Awards

  • The National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Chester in England.
  • The harpist William Frost is awarded a pedal harp by Pencerdd Gwalia

    • New books

  • Richard Davies (Mynyddog) — Caneuon Mynyddog
  • Roger Edwards — Y Tri Brawd
  • Rees Howell Gronow — Last Recollections
  • William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) — Nodiadau ar yr Epistol at yr Hebreaid

    • Music

  • John Owen (Owain Alaw) — Gŵyl Gwalia
  • John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) — The Bride of Neath Valley (cantata)
  • The Eryri music festival (Gwyl Gerddorol Eryri) is founded.

    • Sport

  • Cricket — Hawarden Park Cricket Club is founded, reputedly by William Ewart Gladstone.
  • Rugby football — First competitive game played in Wales, between college teams at Lampeter.

    • Births

  • 13 January — Frank Hill, Wales international rugby captain (died 1927)
  • 21 January — Sir Owen Cox, politician and businessman in Australia (died 1932)
  • 22 March — Willie Thomas, Wales international rugby captain (died 1921)
  • 1 April — Sir William Henry Hoare Vincent, diplomat (died 1941)
  • 18 April — Frederick Llewellyn-Jones, lawyer and politician (died 1941)
  • 20 April — Sir John Milsom Rees, laryngologist (died 1952)
  • 30 May — John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes, poet and hymn-writer (died 1944)
  • 5 August — Sir Edward Anwyl, Celtic scholar (died 1914)
  • 7 August — Charles Granville Bruce, mountaineer (died 1939)
  • 13 August - William Finney, cricketer (died 1927)
  • 24 August — Caesar Jenkyns, footballer (died 1941)
  • 4 October — Robert Jones (Trebor Aled), poet (died 1917)
  • 12 October — James Ramsay MacDonald, politician (died 1937)
  • 4 November — Sir David William Evans, lawyer, public servant and Wales international rugby player, (died 1926)
  • 5 November — Daniel Protheroe, conductor and choirmaster (died 1934)
  • 14 November — Tom Morgan Wales international rugby player (died 1899)
  • 24 November — Alexander Bland, Wales international rugby player (died 1947)
  • 4 December — Dai Lewis (died 1943), rugby union forward who played international rugby for Wales
  • 15 December — William Williams, Wales national rugby union player (died 1945)
  • date unknown — David Delta Evans (Dewi Hiraddug), journalist, author, and Unitarian minister (died 1948)

    • Deaths

  • 16 January — David Owen (Brutus), literary editor, 70
  • 27 January — John Gibson, sculptor, 75
  • 31 January — Owen Owen Roberts, physician, 73
  • 29 March - Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), poet, 55
  • 31 August (approx) — Robert Jermain Thomas, missionary (murdered in Korea), 26
  • 16 October — Angharad Llwyd, antiquary, 86
  • 27 October — William Rowlands, minister and author active in the USA
  • 1 December (in London) — George Everest, surveyor and geographer, 76

    • References

    1866 in Wales Wikipedia
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