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1868 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1868 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 22 January – Sixteen vessels are lost in a gale off the Burry estuary, with a total of thirty lives lost.
  • 1 February – At the bridge over the Severn at Caersws an approach embankment, damaged by flood water, collapses under a train. The driver and fireman are killed.
  • 14 August – Opening of the Bala and Dolgelly Railway, completing the Ruabon to Barmouth Line via Corwen and alongside Bala Lake.
  • 20 August – 33 people die in a fire resulting from a collision between a mail train and a set of trucks at Llandulas station near Abergele, the greatest loss of life in a railway accident in Wales.
  • October – Work begins on Nant-y-Ffrith reservoir.
  • 2 December – The United Kingdom general election leaves Gladstone's Liberals the dominant party in Wales, with 21 seats.
  • Among the Conservative members who lose their seats are Crawshay Bailey and Henry Austin Bruce, the latter replaced by two MPs for the expanded constituency of Merthyr Tydfil: Richard Fothergill and Henry Richard.
  • Richard Davies becomes MP for Anglesey.
  • Love Jones-Parry wins Caernarvonshire from Douglas Pennant.
  • George Osborne Morgan is elected for the first time in Denbighshire.
  • Farmers in Cardiganshire are evicted for returning a Liberal MP, Thomas Lloyd.
  • Norwegian Seamen's Church opens in Cardiff.
  • John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, sponsors restoration work at Caerphilly Castle.
  • First publication of the Welsh-language periodical, Baner America, in the USA.
  • Y Dydd is founded, with Samuel Roberts (S. R.) as editor.
  • Iron Age crannog is discovered on an island in Llangorse Lake, near Brecon.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Ruthin.

    • New books

  • Robert Elis (Cynddelw) – Geiriadur Cymreig Cymraeg
  • John Ceiriog Hughes – Oriau eraill
  • Jabez Edmund Jenkins – Rhiangerdd – Gwenfron o'r Dyffryn
  • Griffith Jones (Glan Menai) – Enwogion Sir Aberteifi
  • Rhys Gwesyn Jones – Caru, Priodi, a Byw
  • John Phillips (Tegidon) – Y Ddeilen ar y Traeth
  • William Forbes Skene – The Four Ancient Books of Wales

    • Music

  • William Lewis Barrett is appointed flautist at the Italian Opera of Lutz.
  • Gŵyl Ardudwy music festival is founded by John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt).
  • Publication of Llyfr Tonau ac Emynau, edited by Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) and Joseph David Jones.

    • Sport

  • Cricket
  • May – A team from Cadoxton play the United South of England (including W. G. Grace) at The Gnoll, Neath.

    • Births

  • 29 May – Sydney Nicholls, Wales rugby international player (d. 1946)
  • 10 June
  • John Jones (Ioan Brothen), poet (d. 1940)
  • David Prosser, bishop (d. 1950)
  • 2 August – Sir Alfred Edward Lewis, banker (d. 1940)
  • 28 August – Thomas Charles Williams, minister (d. 1927)
  • 28 November - Arthur Linton, cyclist (d. 1896)
  • 29 December – William Owen Jones (Eos y Gogledd), musician (d. 1928)
  • date unknown
  • Roger Doughty, footballer (d. 1914)
  • David Matthews, politician

    • Deaths

  • 13 January – John Parry, Mormon convert, 79
  • 22 June – Owain Meirion, poet, 65
  • 17 August – William Nevill, 4th Earl of Abergavenny, 76
  • 11 September – Maria James, poet, 74
  • 24 November – Sir John Dorney Harding, lawyer, 59
  • date unknown
  • Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (born 1803)
  • John Vaughan, ironmaster

    • References

    1868 in Wales Wikipedia
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