1860 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1860 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales — The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Princess of Wales — vacant

Events

• 27 February — A paddle steamer, Nimrod, is wrecked off St David's Head, and 45 people are killed.
• 7 March — HMS Howe, the Royal Navy’s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line, is launched at Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.
• 3 August — Consecration of Marble Church, Bodelwyddan.
• 1 December — The sixth underground explosion in the Risca Black Vein Pit at Crosskeys in the Sirhowy Valley of Monmouthshire kills 142 coal miners.^[1][2]
• Opening of the Gwili Valley railway.
• A statue of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey is added to the column built in his honour by Thomas Harrison earlier in the century.
• Four gun batteries are installed on Flat Holm.
• Discovery of Gwynfynydd Gold Mine gold mine at Dolgellau.
• Founding of the Hafod Copperworks.
• Big Pit at Blaenavon opened.
• Mosque founded in Cardiff Bay by Sheikh Abdullah Hakimi.
• approx. date — Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey adopts the long form of its name.

Arts and literature

Awards

• At the Denbigh eisteddfod, a decision is made to launch a national eisteddfod.
• An eisteddfod is held at Utica, New York.

New books

• John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Hwyr
• Thomas Phillips — The Welsh Revival: Its Origin and Development
• William Rowlands — Dammeg y Mab Afradlon

Music

• John Owen (Owain Alaw) — Gems of Welsh Melody (including the first Welsh lyric for March of the Men of Harlech, written by John Jones (Talhaiarn))

Sport

• The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.
• Oswestry Town F.C. is founded.

Births

• 21 February – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor (died 1952)
• 25 March – Jack Powell, footballer (died 1947
• 29 March – Edward Peake, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
• 14 April – Howell Elvet Lewis (Elved), poet and archdruid (died 1953)
• 19 April – William Penfro Rowlands, composer (died 1937)
• 12 May – Sir John Ballinger, librarian (died 1933)
• 24 May – Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, lawyer and politician (died 1926)
• 6 June – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet (died 1944)
• 30 July – Richard Summers, Wales rugby union international (died 1941)
• 6 September – George Florance Irby, 6th Baron Boston, landowner and scientist (died 1941)
• 25 September – Thomas Francis Roberts, academic (died 1919)
• 31 December – Horace Lyne, Wales international rugby player and WRU president (died 1949)
• date unknown
  • James Colton, anarchist (died 1936)
  • Sir William Price (died 1938)

Deaths

• 4 May – William Ormsby-Gore, politician, 81
• 17 July – Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse, 71
• 13 November - David Dale Owen, geologist in the USA, 53

References

1. Jukes, Tony. "The development of Risca". Risca Industrial History Museum & OHIHS. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
2. "Risca Colliery". CoalHouse. BBC. 2008. Retrieved 2010-10-18.