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1881 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1881 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

  • January — At least five people freeze to death during blizzards and extreme low temperatures throughout Wales.
  • August — The Sunday Closing (Wales) Act prohibits the sale of alcohol on a Sunday. This is the first Act of Parliament in the United Kingdom since the 1542 Act of Union whose application is restricted to Wales.
  • 13 October — 19 people drown when the Cyprian is wrecked off the Lleyn peninsula.
  • Welsh Regiment formed as part of the Childers Reforms of the British Army, incorporating the 41st (Welsh) Regiment of Foot.
  • River Vyrnwy is dammed to create Lake Vyrnwy.

    • Arts and literature

    The Cambrian Academy of Art is formed by English and Welsh artists in North Wales.

    Awards

    National Eisteddfod of Wales — held at Merthyr Tydfil

  • Chair — Evan Rees ("Dyfed")
  • Crown — Watkin Hezekiah Williams

    • New books

  • Amy Dillwyn — Chloe Arguelle
  • Daniel Owen — Y Dreflan

    • Sport

  • Rugby union
  • 19 February — First Wales national game, played at Blackheath against England. Wales lose heavily.
  • 12 March — The Welsh Rugby Union is formed as the Welsh Football Union in a meeting in Neath.

    • Births

  • 1 January — George Latham, footballer (died 1939)
  • 3 January — Lewis Pugh Evans, VC recipient (died 1962)
  • 14 February — William John Gruffydd, academic and politician (died 1954)
  • 9 April — John Hart Evans, Wales international rugby player (died 1959)
  • 15 April — David Thomas ("Afan"), composer (died 1928)
  • 16 April — Ifor Williams, academic (died 1965)
  • 5 May — Rupert Price Hallowes, VC recipient (died 1915)
  • 16 June — David Grenfell, politician (died 1968)
  • 20 June — John Crichton-Stuart, 4th Marquess of Bute, landowner (died 1947)
  • August — John Lewis, footballer (died 1954)
  • 30 September — Philip Lewis Griffiths, lawyer (died 1945)
  • 1 October — Cliff Pritchard, Wales international rugby player (died 1954)
  • 28 October — Edward Evans, 1st Baron Mountevans, explorer (died 1957)
  • 10 December — David Phillips Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
  • December — George Henry Hall, politician (died 1965)
  • date unknown
  • James Grey West, official architect (died 1951)
  • Robert Williams, trade union leader (died 1936)

    • Deaths

  • 3 January — William H. C. Lloyd, clergyman, 78
  • 9 January — John Roose Elias, poet, 60
  • 11 March — Thomas Brigstocke, portrait painter, 71
  • 20 April — William Burges, architect, 53
  • 7 June — William Milbourne James (judge), 74
  • 13 October — Edwin Barber Morgan, Welsh-descended president of Wells Fargo, 67
  • 20 November — Hugh Owen, educationist, 77
  • 22 November — John Owen Griffith (Ioan Arfon), poet and critic, 53

    • References

    1881 in Wales Wikipedia
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