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1870 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1870 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • January — Francis Kilvert begins his famous diary.
  • 10 February — In a mining accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 30 men are killed.
  • Sir George Gilbert Scott completes the restoration of Bangor Cathedral.
  • The Druids of Rhiwabon are formed, the first football club in Wales.
  • George Osborne Morgan introduces the Burials Bill and the Places of Worship (Acquisition of Land) Bill to Parliament.
  • Timothy Richards Lewis discovers a nematoid worm, later Filaria sanguinis hominis.
  • William Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, begins acquiring the collieries later known as the Lewis Merthyr collieries in Rhondda.
  • Jacob Lloyd is created a Knight of the Order of S. Gregory by Pope Pius IX.
  • Thomas William Rhys Davids begins a series of articles for the Ceylon branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Journal.

    • New books

  • John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Haf
  • David Lloyd Davies — Ceinwen Morgan neu y Rian Ddiwylliedig
  • Richard Davies (Mynyddog) — Yr Ail Gynnig

    • Music

  • John Ambrose Lloyd — Aberth Moliant

    • Sport

  • Billiards — John Roberts, Sr. loses the English billiards championship after 21 years.

    • Births

  • 7 January – John Tywi Jones, Baptist minister and journalist (died 1948)
  • 13 January — Conway Rees, rugby player (died 1932)
  • 11 March — Ivor Llewelyn Foster, singer (died 1959)
  • 20 March — Eluned Morgan, author
  • 25 March — Wallace Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1950)
  • 19 June — Charles Nicholl, Wales international rugby union player (died 1939)
  • 29 June
  • Arthur Boucher, Wales international rugby union player (died 1948)
  • Sir Charles Dillwyn-Venables-Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, politician (died 1951)
  • 27 July — Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan, historian (died 1948)
  • 18 August — William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician and Wales international rugby player (died 1946)
  • 1 September — Robert Roberts (Bob Tai'r Felin), folk singer (died 1951)
  • 27 September — Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955)
  • 3 November — Norman Biggs, Wales international rugby player (died 1908)
  • 15 November — William Elsey, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
  • 20 December — Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958)
  • 29 December - Robert Dewi Williams, teacher, minister and writer (died 1955)
  • 31 December - David John Jones, Dean of Llandaff (died 1949)
  • date unknown
  • John Hughes Morris, missionary (died 1953)

    • Deaths

  • 16 March — Thomas Parry, Bishop of Barbados, 74
  • 4 April — Owen Wynne Jones, writer, 42
  • 1 May — Ivor Fostor, singer, 58
  • 15 May — Charles Hinde, soldier, 49
  • 21 June — Thomas Evan James (Thomas ap Ieuan), minister and author, 46
  • 27 May — John Etherington Welch Rolls, Monmouthshire landowner and father of 1st Baron Llangattock, 63
  • 1 August — Levi Gibbon, balladeer, 92
  • 8 September — David Parry (Dewi Moelwyn), poet, 35
  • 17 September — Joseph David Jones, composer, 43
  • 16 November — Harry Longueville Jones, antiquary, 64

    • References

    1870 in Wales Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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