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1867 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 3 June
  • Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary is completed, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.
  • Amlwch is linked to the rail network for the first time.
  • 2 September — The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.
  • 27 October — A sailing ship, the Earl of Chester, is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of 14 lives.
  • 8 November — 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
  • John Graham Chambers revises the Marquess of Queensberry rules for boxing.
  • Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
  • The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.
  • Rhyl pier is built, at a cost of £23,000.

    • Awards

  • At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.

    • New books

  • Rhoda Broughton — Cometh Up as a Flower
  • Edward Hamer — The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes
  • Jabez Edmund Jenkins — Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau
  • Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan - Penhow Castle
  • William Thomas (Islwyn) — Caniadau
  • Alfred Russel Wallace — The Malay Archipelago
  • Charles Wilkins — The History of Merthyr Tydfil

    • Music

  • David Roberts (Alawydd) — Llyfr y Psalmau

    • Sport

  • Boxing — The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published.

    • Births

  • 10 March
  • Sir William James Thomas, Baronet, philanthropist (d. 1945)
  • William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922)
  • 2 May — Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926)
  • 13 May — Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)
  • 15 May — Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
  • 21 May — John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)
  • 26 May — Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901–1910 (d. 1953)
  • 29 September — John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)
  • 6 October — Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player
  • 12 October — Lyn Harding, actor (d. 1952)
  • 2 November — Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899)
  • 28 November — James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944)
  • 18 December — David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East (d. 1933)
  • date unknown — Fred Hutchinson, rugby player (d. 1941)

    • Deaths

  • 15 February — Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82
  • 18 February — Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48
  • 27 April — Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64
  • 4 August — William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79
  • 12 September — Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67
  • 1 December — William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74

    • References

    1867 in Wales Wikipedia
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