1877 in Wales

1877 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1877 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
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Clwydfardd

Events

*March 8 In a mining accident at Worcester Colliery, Swansea, seventeen men are killed.
*April 11 - In a mining accident at Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda, five men are killed by flooding. Twenty-five of the rescue team are awarded the Albert Medal for bravery.
*November 30 - Opening of the new market hall at Builth Wells by Sir Joseph Bailey, MP
*Closure of lead mine at Loggerheads.
*Opening of Stepaside village school (now part of Stepaside Heritage Park).
*Opening of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways from Dinas to Tryfan Junction and Bryngwyn.

Arts and literature

*Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert.

New books

*Richard Davies (Mynyddog) - "Y Trydydd Cynnig"
*William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) - "Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr"

Music

*Joseph Parry resigns from his position as Professor of Music at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

port

*Football - Welsh Cup is inaugurated.
*Rugby union - Blaenavon RFC established.

Births

*May 2 - Sid Bevan, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1933)
*June 6 - Herbert John Fleure, zoologist and geographer (born in Guernsey) (died 1969)
*July 1 - Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player (died 1957)
*August 19 - John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
*September 17 - Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (died 1928)
*September 26 - Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales, but birth certificate proves otherwise)
*November - Leigh Richmond Roose, footballer (d. 1916)
*November 7 - Maurice Parry, footballer (d. 1935)

Deaths

*June 24 - Robert Dale Owen, Welsh-American politician (born 1801)
*July 14 - Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet (born 1833)
*August 5 - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (born 1830)
*October 17 - Charles Williams, academic
*November 7 - Calvert Jones, painter and pioneer photographer (born 1804)
*"date unknown" - Thomas Richards, "father of Tasmanian journalism"


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