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1869 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1869 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • January
  • Henry Austin Bruce becomes MP for Renfrewshire.
  • Timothy Richards Lewis goes to India to study cholera.
  • 1 May — The Western Mail is published for the first time.
  • 19 May — Two days after John Young, the English manager of the Leeswood Green colliery, announces a pay cut, he is attacked by some of his workers.
  • 2 June— Seven men are tried at Mold for attacking John Young. A riot breaks out as those convicted are being transported to the railway station; soldiers fire on the crowd, killing four people.
  • 10 June — Three people are killed in a train derailment at Maesycwmmer in Glamorgan.
  • 1 September — The Dyserth branch line is opened for goods traffic.
  • 30 October — The first edition of the Welsh-language periodical, Y Goleuad, is published.
  • Anti-Irish riots at Pontlottyn in the Rhymney Valley result in one death.
  • Landore steelworks at Swansea established by Carl Wilhelm Siemens.
  • John Hughes of Merthyr Tydfil buys land near the Sea of Azov, where he develops an ironworks and founds the city of Yuzovka (later Donetsk).
  • Joseph Leycester Lyne (Father Ignatius of Jesus) acquires land at Capel-y-ffin and begins construction of an Anglican Benedictine community, Llanthony Abbey (Llanthony Tertia).
  • Construction of the fort at St Catherine's Island, off Tenby.
  • Prehistoric burial remains are discovered at Parc le Breos on the Gower Peninsula.
  • John Owen of Tyn-llwyn is evicted from his farm for voting Tory.

    • Awards

  • The first official National Eisteddfod of Wales takes place at Holywell.

    • New books

  • J. H. Clark — History of Monmouthshire
  • John Hugh Evans — Pryddest Goffa i Thomas Aubrey
  • Jane Hughes — Galargan am y diweddar Barch. Henry Rees, Liverpool
  • David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) — Yr Ysgol Farddol
  • Nathaniel Jones (Cynhafal) — Elias y Thesbiad
  • John Petherick — Travels in Central Africa and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries
  • William Rowlands — Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry (Bibliography of the Welsh) (posthumous; ed. Daniel Silvan Evans)
  • Jane Williams (Ysgafell) — A History of Wales derived from Authentic Sources
  • Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) — Y Geninen

    • Music

  • Owen Jones — Hymnau Hen a Diweddar (collection of hymns)

    • Sport

  • Football — Ruabon footballers set up a club at Plas Madoc.
  • Mountaineering — Emmeline Lewis Lloyd attempts an ascent of the Matterhorn.

    • Births

  • 11 January – Ralph Sweet-Escott, English born, Wales rugby international (died 1907)
  • 9 April – John Hugh Edwards, politician (died 1945)
  • 19 May – John Henry Williams, Welsh politician (died 1936)
  • 20 May – Robert Griffith Berry, minister and writer (died 1945)
  • 30 May – Thomas Rees, theologian (died 1926)
  • 12 August – Fred Parfitt, Wales international rugby player (died 1953)
  • 6 September – Walford Davies, composer (died 1944)
  • 24 September – Maud Cunnington, archaeologist (died 1951)
  • 29 October – Bill Morris, Wales international rugby player (died 1946)
  • 9 November – Osbert Fynes-Clinton, dialectologist (died 1941)
  • 12 November – Arthur Leonard Leach, geologist and archaeologist (died 1957)
  • 15 November – Percy Bennett, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
  • 20 November – Herbert Tudor Buckland, architect working in Birmingham (died 1951)
  • 26 November – Princess Maud of Wales, queen consort of Norway (died 1938)

    • Deaths

  • 18 February – Henry Rees, Calvinistic Methodist minister, 71
  • 23 March – William Williams (Caledfryn), poet, 68
  • 31 March – David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr), Nonconformist leader and author, 67
  • 16 April – James Davies (Iago ap Dewi), poet, 68
  • 12 May – Thomas Walter Price (Cuhelyn), journalist and poet, 39
  • 1 July – David Jones, banker and politician, 58
  • 14 July – Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon, 64
  • October – John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet, 59
  • 15 December – David Williams, politician, 70
  • 17 December – Sarah Jacob, "the fasting girl", 12

    • References

    1869 in Wales Wikipedia
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