- 1870 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1870 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of QueenVictoria 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.
*SirGeorge Gilbert Scott completes the restoration ofBangor 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 inRhondda .
*Jacob Lloyd is created a Knight of the Order of S. Gregory byPope 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
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John Ceiriog Hughes - "Oriau'r Haf"
*David Lloyd Davies - "Ceinwen Morgan neu y Rian Ddiwylliedig"
*Richard Davies (Mynyddog) - "Yr Ail Gynnig"Music
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John Ambrose Lloyd - "Aberth Moliant"port
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Billiards - John Roberts loses theEnglish billiards championship after 21 years.Births
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January 13 -John Conway Rees , rugby player (died1932 )
*March 1 -Ivor Llewelyn Foster , singer (died1959 )
*June 29 -Arthur Boucher , Wales international rugby union player (died1948 )
*July 27 -Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan , historian (died1948 )
*August 18 -William Cope, 1st Baron Cope , politician (died1946 )
*September 1 -Robert Roberts (Bob Tai'r Felin) , folk singer (died1951 )
*September 27 -Thomas Jones (T. J.) , civil servant (died1955 )
*December 20 - Sir David Davies, politician (died1958 )
*"date unknown"
**Eluned Morgan, author
**John Hughes Morris , missionary (died1953 )
**John Henry Williams, Welsh politician (died1936 )Deaths
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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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