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1872 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1872 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 5 January — In a mining accident at Blackwood Colliery, five men are killed.
  • 2 March — In a mining accident at Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale, nineteen men are killed.
  • 18 June — A derailment occurs in the Pencader Tunnel on the Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway.
  • 12 July — Cardiff Tramways Company begins operation of horse trams.
  • 1 August — Minffordd railway station is opened.
  • 9 October — University College Wales, Aberystwyth, opens with 26 students; Thomas Charles Edwards is its first principal.
  • Stocks are used on the last recorded occasion in the UK, at Adpar in Cardiganshire, when a man is imprisoned in them for drunkenness.

    • New books

  • R. D. Blackmore — The Maid of Sker
  • Thomas Thomas — Hynodion Hen Bregethwyr Cymru

    • Music

  • The South Wales "Cor Mawr", conducted by Griffith R. Jones (Caradog) wins a national choral competition at Crystal Palace.

    • Sport

  • Cricket — First game played at Elwy Grove Park, St Asaph.
  • Football — 28 September: Wrexham Football Club is founded. They play at the Racecourse Ground.

    • Births

  • 21 February — Evan Lorimer Thomas, clergyman and academic (died 1953)
  • 6 May — William Llewellyn Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1943)
  • 10 May — Tom Pearson, Wales international rugby player (died 1957)
  • 18 May — Bertrand Russell, philosopher (died 1970)
  • 14 July — David Morgan, Wales international rugby player (died 1933)
  • 27 August — Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator (died 1910)
  • 14 September — Albert Jenkin, Wales international rugby player (died 1961)
  • 8 October — John Cowper Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1963)
  • date unknown
  • Vernon Hartshorn, politician (died 1931)
  • Thomas Jeremiah Williams, lawyer and politician (died 1919)

    • Deaths

  • 24 March - James Williams, clergyman and philanthropist, 81
  • 3 August — William Davies Evans, chess player, 82
  • 22 August — Evan Davies, educationist, 84
  • 11 November — Mary Anne Disraeli, wife of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, 80

    • References

    1872 in Wales Wikipedia
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