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1878 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1878 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • March — The 'basic' process, enabling the use of phosphoric iron ore in steelmaking, developed at the failing Blaenavon Ironworks by Percy Gilchrist and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, is first made public.
  • 12 April — The Swansea Improvements and Tramway Company begins to operate horse trams.
  • 11 September — In a mining accident at the Prince of Wales Colliery, Abercarn, 268 men are killed.
  • Founding of Dr Williams' School for Girls at Dolgellau.
  • Opening of Marine Drive around the Great Orme at Llandudno.
  • A passenger ferry service is established between Bangor and Porthaethwy on the Menai Strait.
  • Industrialist John Corbett buys Ynysymaengwyn.
  • The prison system in Wales is nationalised and brought under centralised government control.
  • Nanteos Cup first exhibited.

    • New books

  • Daniel Silvan Evans — Celtic Remains
  • William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) — Llythyrau 'Rhen Ffarmwr

    • Music

  • John Owen (Owain Alaw) — Jeremiah (oratorio)

    • Sport

  • Football — The Welsh Cup competition takes place for the first time, and is won by Wrexham.

    • Births

  • 4 January — Augustus John, painter (died 1961)
  • 30 January — Reg Skrimshire, Wales and British Lions rugby union player (died 1963)
  • 24 February — Lou Phillips, Wales international rugby player (killed in action 1916)
  • 3 March — Edward Thomas, poet (died 1917)
  • 12 March — Mary Sophia Allen, women's rights activist (died 1964)
  • 15 March — Thomas Richards, historian and librarian (died 1962)
  • 21 March — Edwin Thomas Maynard, Wales international rugby player (died 1961)
  • 16 April — Owen Thomas Jones, geologist (died 1967)
  • 26 May — Abel J. Jones, writer (died 1949)
  • 5 June — Billy O'Neill, Wales national rugby player (died 1955)
  • 8 June — Evan Roberts, religious revivalist (died 1951)
  • 20 June — Seymour Farmer, politician in Canada (died 1951)
  • 28 June — Evan Roberts, preacher (died 1951)
  • 1 July — Billy Trew, rugby player and Welsh Triple Crown winning captain (died 1926)
  • 27 August — Edgar Rees Jones, lawyer and politician (died 1962)
  • 28 October — Charles Benjamin Redrup, aeronautical engineer (died 1961)
  • 8 November — Dorothea Bate, palaeontologist (died 1951)
  • 31 December — Caradoc Evans, writer (died 1945)
  • date unknown — Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan), Welsh language short story writer (died 1919)

    • Deaths

  • 25 February — Townsend Harris, Welsh-descended American diplomat, 73
  • 30 March — Peter Maurice, priest and writer, 74
  • 4 July — William Roos, Welsh artist and engraver, 70
  • 13 August — Francis Rice, 5th Baron Dynevor, 74
  • 30 September — Evan James, poet, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem, 69
  • 18 November — John Jones (Mathetes), clergyman and writer, 57
  • 20 November — William Thomas (Islwyn), poet, 46
  • 25 November — Llewelyn Lewellin, clergyman and academic, 80
  • 11 December — William Thomas (Gwilym Marles), poet, 44
  • 13 December — David Charles, secretary of the University for Wales movement, 56

    • References

    1878 in Wales Wikipedia
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