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1877 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1877 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
  • Princess of Wales — Alexandra
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales — Clwydfardd

    • Events

  • 8 March — In a mining accident at Worcester Colliery, Swansea, seventeen men are killed.
  • 11 April — In a mining accident at Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda, five men are killed by flooding. Twenty-five of the rescue team are awarded the Albert Medal for bravery.
  • 1 August — Opening of new Llandudno Pier.
  • 15 August — Opening to passengers of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways from Dinas to Tryfan Junction and Bryngwyn.
  • 30 November — Opening of the new market hall at Builth Wells by Sir Joseph Bailey M.P.
  • Closure of lead mine at Loggerheads.
  • Opening of Stepaside, Pembrokeshire village school (now part of Stepaside Heritage Park).

    • Arts and literature

  • Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert.

    • New books

  • Richard Davies (Mynyddog) — Y Trydydd Cynnig
  • William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) — Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr

    • Music

  • Joseph Parry resigns from his position as Professor of Music at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

    • Sport

  • Football
  • The Racecourse Ground at Wrexham hosts Wales' first ever home international match, making it the world's oldest international football stadium still to host international matches.
  • The Welsh Cup is inaugurated.
  • Rugby union
  • 8 November — Blaenavon RFC play their first game, against Abergavenny.

    • Births

  • 2 May - Sid Bevan, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1933)
  • 6 June (in Guernsey) - Herbert John Fleure, zoologist and geographer (died 1969)
  • 9 June - George Travers, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
  • 21 June - Elizabeth Mary Jones (Moelona) (died 1953)
  • 1 July - Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player (died 1957)
  • 19 August - John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
  • 17 September - Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (died 1928)
  • 26 September (in Wandsworth) - Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales)
  • 5 October - Lily Gower, croquet player (died 1959)
  • 27 October - David Harris Davies Wales international rugby union player (died 1944)
  • 7 November - Maurice Parry, footballer (died 1935)
  • 27 November - Leigh Richmond Roose, footballer (died 1916)
  • 2 December - John Strand-Jones, Wales international rugby union player (died 1958)

    • Deaths

  • 9 January - Thomas Thomas, clergyman, 72
  • 24 June - Robert Dale Owen, Welsh-American politician, 75
  • 14 July - Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet, 44
  • 27 July – John Frost, Chartist leader, 93
  • 5 August - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet, 47
  • 17 October - Charles Williams, academic, 73?
  • 7 November - Calvert Jones, painter and pioneer photographer, 72
  • date unknown - Thomas Richards, "father of Tasmanian journalism"

    • References

    1877 in Wales Wikipedia
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