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1873 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1873 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 1 March — The sailing ship Chacabuco sinks off the Great Orme with the loss of 24 lives.
  • 9 October — The first recorded sheepdog trial in the UK takes place at Bala.
  • 2 December — In a mining accident at Hafod Colliery, Rhiwabon, five men are killed.
  • Construction of the Holyhead breakwater (the longest in the world) is completed after 28 years.
  • Work begins on the Severn tunnel.
  • The Glyn Valley Tramway opens, carrying slate from Glyn Ceiriog to Chirk.
  • Construction of the Morriston Tabernacle chapel, the biggest in Wales at the time.
  • Construction of lighthouse on Ynys Llanddwyn.

    • New books

  • Rhoda Broughton — Nancy
  • Robert Elis (Cynddelw) — Manion Hynafiaethol
  • Ebenezer Thomas - Gweithiau Barddonol Eben Fardd (posthumously published)

    • Music

  • Henry Brinley Richards — Songs of Wales

    • Sport

  • December — Major Walter Wingfield of Nantclwyd Hall at Llanelidan designs a game for the amusement of his visitors. Wingfield soon patents nets for the game of lawn tennis, which he calls "sphairistike".

    • Births

  • 7 January — Christopher Williams, Welsh artist (died 1934)
  • 16 January — Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne, politician (died 1939)
  • 7 April
  • John Dyfnallt Owen, poet and Archdruid (died 1956)
  • Charles Butt Stanton, politician (died 1946)
  • 23 April — Sir Robert Thomas, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1951)
  • 1 May — Harry Evans, musician (died 1914)
  • 2 June — Anna Eliza Williams, supercentenarian (died 1987)
  • 5 June — Ben Davies, Wales international rugby player (died 1930)
  • date unknown — Arthur Tysilio Johnson ("The Perfidious Welshman") (died 1956)

    • Deaths

  • January — John Emlyn Jones, poet (born 1818)
  • 27 January — Josiah Thomas Jones, publisher (born 1799)
  • 29 March — David Jones, merchant in Australia (born 1793)
  • 17 May — Lord William Paget, soldier and politician (born 1803)
  • 9 October — John Evan Thomas, sculptor (born 1810)
  • 31 October — William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (born 1813)
  • 10 November — Maria Jane Williams, musician (born 1795)
  • date unknown — William Jones, Chartist leader

    • References

    1873 in Wales Wikipedia
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