1860 in Wales

1860 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1860 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*February 27 - A paddle steamer, "Nimrod", is wrecked off St David's Head, and 45 people are killed.
*Opening of the Gwili Valley railway.
*A statue of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey is added to the column built in his honour by Thomas Harrison earlier in the century.
*Four gun batteries are installed on Flat Holm.
*Discovery of the Gwynfynydd gold mine at Dolgellau.

Arts and literature

Awards

*At the Denbigh eisteddfod, a decision is made to launch a national eisteddfod.
*An eisteddfod is held at Utica, New York.

New books

*John Ceiriog Hughes - "Oriau'r Hwyr"
*Thomas Phillips - "The Welsh Revival: Its Origin and Development"
*William Rowlands - "Dammeg y Mab Afradlon"

Music

*John Owen (Owain Alaw) - "Gems of Welsh Melody" (including the first Welsh lyric for "March of the Men of Harlech", written by John Jones (Talhaiarn))

port

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

Births

*February 21 - Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor (died 1952)
*April 14 - Howell Elvet Lewis (Elved), poet and archdruid (died 1953)
*May 12 - Sir John Ballinger, librarian (died 1933)
*May 24 - Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, lawyer and politician (died 1926)
*September 6 - George Florance Irby, 6th Baron Boston, landowner and scientist (died 1941)
*"date unknown"
**James Colton, anarchist (died 1936)
**Sir William Price (died 1938)

Deaths

*May 4 - William Ormsby-Gore, politician, 81
*July 17 - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse, 71


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