1870s in Wales

Incumbents

Prince of Wales — Albert Edward

Princess of Wales — Alexandra

Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales — Clwydfardd (from 1876)

Events

1870

1871

1872

1873

1874

1875

1876

1877

1878

1879

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales — no National Eisteddfod officially took place during this decade. 1872 — William Thomas (Islwyn) wins a bardic chair at Rhyl. 1874 — Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Caerphilly. 1877 — Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert.

New books

R. D. Blackmore — The Maid of Sker (1872)

Rhoda Broughton — Nancy (1873)

Richard Davies (Mynyddog)

Yr Ail Gynnig (1870)

Y Trydydd Cynnig (1877)

Robert Elis (Cynddelw) — Manion Hynafiaethol (1873)

Beriah Gwynfe Evans — Owain Glyndwr (play) (1879)

Daniel Silvan Evans — Celtic Remains (1878)

John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Haf (1870)

William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog)

Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr (1877)

Llythyrau 'Rhen Ffarmwr (1878)

Thomas Thomas (minister) — Hynodion Hen Bregethwyr Cymru (1872)

Music

1873

Henry Brinley Richards — Songs of Wales

Sport

1873 — Major Walter Wingfield of Nantclwyd Hall patents nets for the game of lawn tennis, which he calls "sphairistike".

Births

1870

18 August — William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician (died 1946)

27 September — Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955)

20 December — Sir Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958)

1871

6 April — Prince Alexander John of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 7 April 1871)

1872

18 May — Bertrand Russell, philosopher (died 1970)

27 August — Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator (died 1910)

8 October — John Cowper Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1963)

1873

23 April — Sir Robert Thomas, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1951)

2 June — Anna Eliza Williams, supercentenarian (died 1987)

1874

6 February — David Evans, composer (died 1948)

3 October — James Henry Thomas, politician (died 1949)

December — Nantlais Williams, poet and religious leader (died 1959)

date unknown — Albert Bethel, politician (died 1935)

1875

10 September — John Evans, Welsh politician (died 1961)

11 November — Johnny Jenkins, racing driver (died 1945)

1876

22 June — Gwen John, artist (died 1939)

18 September — Charles Kemeys-Tynte, 8th Baron Wharton (died 1934)

1877

19 August — John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)

26 September — Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales, but birth certificate proves otherwise)

1878

4 January — Augustus John, painter (died 1961)

3 March — Edward Thomas, poet (died 1917)

16 April — Owen Thomas Jones, geologist (died 1967)

26 May — Abel J. Jones, writer (died 1949)

28 June — Evan Roberts preacher (died 1951)

31 December — Caradoc Evans, writer (died 1945)

1879

4 September — Eliot Crawshay-Williams, politician and writer (died 1962)

2 October — Idris Bell, papyrologist (died 1967)

Deaths

1872

3 August — William Davies Evans, chess player (born 1790)

1874

19 April — Owen Jones, architect (born 1809)

1875

27 July — Connop Thirlwall, bishop (born 1797)

1876

19 July — George E. Pugh, Welsh-American politician (born 1822)

1877

24 June — Robert Dale Owen, Welsh-American politician (born 1801)

14 July — Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet (born 1833)

5 August — Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (born 1830)

1878

3 January — Morris Williams (Nicander), writer (born 1809)

30 September — Evan James, poet, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem (born 1809)

20 November — William Thomas (Islwyn), poet (born 1832)

1879

23 September — Francis Kilvert, diarist (born 1840)