1870 in Wales

1870 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1870 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - Alexandra of Denmark

Events

*January - Francis Kilvert begins his famous diary.
*February 10 - In a mining accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 30 men are killed.
*Sir George Gilbert Scott completes the restoration of Bangor Cathedral.
*The Druids of Rhiwabon are formed, the first football club in Wales.
*George Osborne Morgan introduces the Burials Bill and the Places of Worship (Acquisition of Land) Bill to Parliament.
*Timothy Richards Lewis discovers a nematoid worm, later "Filaria sanguinis hominis".
*William Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, begins acquiring the collieries later known as the Lewis Merthyr collieries in Rhondda.
*Jacob Lloyd is created a Knight of the Order of S. Gregory by Pope Pius IX.
*Thomas William Rhys Davids begins a series of articles for the Ceylon branch of the "Royal Asiatic Society Journal".

Arts and literature

New books

*John Ceiriog Hughes - "Oriau'r Haf"
*David Lloyd Davies - "Ceinwen Morgan neu y Rian Ddiwylliedig"
*Richard Davies (Mynyddog) - "Yr Ail Gynnig"

Music

*John Ambrose Lloyd - "Aberth Moliant"

port

*Billiards - John Roberts loses the English billiards championship after 21 years.

Births

*January 13 - John Conway Rees, rugby player (died 1932)
*March 1 - Ivor Llewelyn Foster, singer (died 1959)
*June 29 - Arthur Boucher, Wales international rugby union player (died 1948)
*July 27 - Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan, historian (died 1948)
*August 18 - William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician (died 1946)
*September 1 - Robert Roberts (Bob Tai'r Felin), folk singer (died 1951)
*September 27 - Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955)
*December 20 - Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958)
*"date unknown"
**Eluned Morgan, author
**John Hughes Morris, missionary (died 1953)
**John Henry Williams, Welsh politician (died 1936)

Deaths

*April 4 - Owen Wynne Jones, writer, 42
*May 15 - Charles Hinde, soldier, 49
*June 21 - Thomas Evan James (Thomas ap Ieuan), minister and author, 46
*August 1 - Levi Gibbon, balladeer, 92
*September 8 - David Parry (Dewi Moelwyn), poet, 35
*September 17 - Joseph David Jones, composer, 43
*November 16 - Harry Longueville Jones, antiquary, 64


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