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1886 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1886 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

  • 1 September — The Great Western Railway opens the Severn Tunnel to regular goods and mineral traffic (and to passengers on 1 December).
  • September — Opening of the Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre.
  • 15 October
  • 20 people are drowned when the sailing ship Malleny is wrecked on Tusker Rocks, Porthcawl.
  • 18 people are drowned when the sailing ship Teviotdale is wrecked on Cefn Sidan Sands in Carmarthenshire.
  • November
  • Serious flooding in Aberystwyth.
  • The keeper of the Mumbles lighthouse is swept out to sea and drowned.
  • The rivers Mawddach, Dee and Taff all flood.
  • Cantref Reservoir on the Taff Fawr completed.
  • Opening of the Cardiff Stock Exchange
  • Cymru Fydd is founded by the Liberal Party to further the cause of home rule.
  • The Welsh Land League is founded.
  • Beginning of tithe revolt in Denbighshire.

    • Awards

    National Eisteddfod of Wales — held at Caernarfon

  • Chair — Richard Davies
  • Crown — John Cadfan Davies

    • New books

  • Rhoda Broughton — Doctor Cupid

    • Music

  • William Owen "of Prysgol" - Y Perl Cerddorol yn cynnwys tonau ac anthemau, cysegredig a moesol (sol-fa edition)

    • Sport

  • Football — Druids win the Welsh Cup for the fifth time in its nine-year history.
  • Rugby union — Abercynon RFC and Treorchy RFC founded.

    • Births

  • 3 March — Jack Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1951)
  • 4 March - Rowland Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1914)
  • 5 March — Freddie Welsh, Lightweight boxing champion of the world (died 1927)
  • 14 March — David Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1916)
  • 16 March - James Llewellyn Davies, VC winner (died 1917)
  • 28 March — John Osborn Williams, entrepreneur (died 1963)
  • 3 May — Morgan Jones, Welsh politician (died 1939)
  • 6 June — John Morgan, Archbishop of Wales (died 1957)
  • 17 June — David Brunt, meteorologist (died 1965)
  • 11 July — Ernest Willows, aviation pioneer (died 1926)
  • 13 July — Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams), poet (died 1961)
  • 22 September - Bil Perry, Welsh international rugby player (died 1970)
  • 29 September — Jack Williams, VC recipient (died 1953)
  • 9 November (probable) - S. O. Davies, politician (died 1972)
  • 10 November — Fred Birt, Wales international rugby union player (died 1956)
  • 22 December - David James Jones, philosopher and academic (died 1947)

    • Deaths

  • 28 February — John Jones, politician, 73
  • 31 March — Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, 85
  • 9 July — Roger Edwards, minister and writer, 75
  • 13 October — John Prichard, architect, 69
  • 29 October - Evan Evans, ("Evans Bach Nantyglo"), minister, 82

    • References

    1886 in Wales Wikipedia
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