1860s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1860 - 1869 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 (from 1863)

Events

*1860
*1861
*1862
*1863
*1864
*1865
*1866
*1867
*1868
*1869

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales
*1861 - Aberdare
*1862 - Caernarfon
*1863 - Swansea
*1864 - Llandudno
*1865 - Aberystwyth
*1866 - Chester
*1867 - Carmarthen - A crown is presented for the first time
*1868 - Ruthin - The Eisteddfod Council is disbanded
*1869 - Holywell

New books

*R. D. Blackmore - "Clara Vaughan" (1864)
*George Borrow - "Wild Wales" (1862)
*Rhoda Broughton - "Cometh up as a Flower" (1867)
*Richard Davies (Mynyddog) - "Caneuon Mynyddog" (1866)
*Huw Derfel - "Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn" (1864)
*Robert Jones Derfel - "Traethodau ac Areithiau" (1864)
*John Ceiriog Hughes
**"Oriau'r Hwyr" (1860)
**"Oriau'r Bore" (1862)
**"Cant o Ganeuon" (1863)
**"Y Bardd a'r Cerddor" (1865)
**"Oriau eraill" (1868)
*David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) - "Yr Ysgol Farddol" (1869)
*William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) - "Emmanuel" (1861)
*William Thomas (Islwyn) - "Caniadau" (1867)
*Robert Williams (Trebor Mai)
**"Fy Noswyl" (1861)
**"Geninen" (1869)
*Alfred Russel Wallace
**"The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of 'Natural Selection" (1864)
**"The Malay Archipelago" (1867)

Music

*William Griffiths (Ifander) - "Gwarchae Harlech" (cantata) (1864)
*Hugh Jerman - "Deus Misereatur" (1861)
*Henry Brinley Richards - "God Bless the Prince of Wales" (1863)
*John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia)
**"Llewelyn" (cantata) (1863)
**"The Bride of Neath Valley" (cantata) (1866)

port

*1860 - The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.

Births

*1860
**"date unknown" - Sir William Price (died 1938)
*1861
**"date unknown"
***John Edward Lloyd, historian (died 1947)
***Thomas Mardy Rees, writer (died 1953)
*1862
**"date unknown" - John Daniel Evans, Patagonia settler
*1863
**January 17 - David Lloyd George, politician (died 1945)
**March 3 - Arthur Machen, writer (died 1947)
*1864
**January 8 - Prince Albert Victor, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1892)
**October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)
**"date unknown" - Charles Alfred Howell Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)
*1865
**June 3 - Prince George, second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales and himself Prince of Wales 1901 - 1910
**"date unknown" - William Brace, politician (died 1947)
*1866
**October 12 - James Ramsay MacDonald, politician (died 1937)
**"date unknown" - John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes, poet and hymn-writer (died 1944)
*1867
**May 2 - Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (died 1926)
**May 13 - Frank Brangwyn, artist (died 1956)
**May 26 - Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1953)
**September 29 - John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (died 1924)
*1869
**September 6 - Walford Davies, composer (died 1944)
**"date unknown"
***Thomas Rees, theologian (died 1926)
***Osbert Fynes-Clinton, dialectologist (died 1941)

Deaths

*1860
**May 4 - William Ormsby-Gore, politician (born 1779)
**July 17 - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (born 1789)
*1861
**May 8 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (born 1830)
*1862
**January 3 - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (born 1810)
**"date unknown" - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary
*1863
**April - George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (born 1806)
*1864
**March 11 - Richard Roberts, engineer
**August 1 - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)
**"date unknown"
***Evan Davies, missionary
***Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible
*1865
**February 21 - Stapleton Cotton, military leader (born 1773)
*1866
**January 27 - John Gibson, sculptor (born 1790)
*1867
**April 27 - Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist (born 1802)
**May 23 - William Crawshay II, industrialist (born 1788)
*1868
**June 22 - Owain Meirion, poet (born 1803)
**"date unknown" - Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (born 1803)
*1869
**March 31 - David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr), Nonconformist leader and author
**"date unknown" - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet (born 1810)