1867 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1867 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 3 June^[1]
  • Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary is completed, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.
  • Amlwch is linked to the rail network for the first time.
• 2 September — The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.^[1]
• 27 October — A sailing ship, the Earl of Chester, is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of 14 lives.
• 8 November — 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
• John Graham Chambers revises the Marquess of Queensberry rules for boxing.
• Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
• The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.
• Rhyl pier is built, at a cost of £23,000.

Arts and literature

Awards

• At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.

New books

• Rhoda Broughton — Cometh Up as a Flower^[2]
• Edward Hamer — The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes
• Jabez Edmund Jenkins — Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau
• William Thomas (Islwyn) — Caniadau
• Alfred Russel Wallace — The Malay Archipelago
• Charles Wilkins — The History of Merthyr Tydfil

Music

• David Roberts (Alawydd) — Llyfr y Psalmau

Sport

• Boxing — The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published.

Births

• 10 March
  • Sir William James Thomas, Baronet, philanthropist (d. 1945)
  • William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922)
• 2 May — Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926)
• 13 May — Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)
• 15 May — Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
• 21 May — John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)
• 26 May — Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901–1910 (d. 1953)
• 29 September — John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)
• 6 October — Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player
• 12 October — Lyn Harding, actor (d. 1952)
• 2 November — Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899)
• 28 November — James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944)
• 18 December — David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East (d. 1933)
• date unknown — Fred Hutchinson, rugby player (d. 1941)

Deaths

• 15 February — Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82
• 18 February — Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48
• 27 April — Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64
• 4 August — William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79
• 12 September — Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67
• 1 December — William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74

References

1. Quick, Michael (2009). Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology (4th ed.). Oxford: Railway and Canal Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-901461-57-5.
2. Leavis, Q. D. (1965). Fiction and the Reading Public (2nd ed.). London: Chatto & Windus.