1863 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1863 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

*March 10 - Marriage of Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, to Alexandra of Denmark. Alexandra becomes the first Princess of Wales since 1820.
*English church services are introduced for English-speaking minorities in Welsh-speaking areas.
*Founding of the Anglesey Central Railway.
*Sir Hugh Owen becomes an honorary secretary of the London committee formed to set up the University of Wales.
*Mesac Thomas becomes the first Bishop of Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.
*Publication of "The Bards of Wales", first written in 1857 by Hungarian poet János Arany, using the story of Edward I's conquest of Wales to disguise criticism of the Austro-Hungarian empire.

Arts and literature

Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Swansea.

New books

*John Ceiriog Hughes - "Cant o Ganeuon"
*John Jones (Ioan Emlyn) - "Golud yr Oes"
*David William Nash - "The Pharaoh of the Exodus"
*Ebenezer Thomas - "Cyff Beuno"

Music

*John Ceiriog Hughes - "Cant O Ganeuon"
*John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) - "Llewelyn" (cantata)

port

*Cricket
**July 23 - South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's.
**July 27 - South Wales Cricket Club defeat Gentlemen of Kent at Cranbrook.

Births

*January 17 - David Lloyd George, politician (died 1945)
*March 3 - Arthur Machen, writer (died 1947)
*May 18 - Lewis Davies (Lewis Glyn Cynon), novelist and historian (died 1951)
*May 21 - William Jones Williams, civil servant (died 1949)
*June 11 - Llewellyn Henry Gwynne, first suffragan Bishop of Khartoum (died 1957)
*June 18 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet of Welsh parentage (died 1909)
*August 8 - John Herbert Roberts, Baron Clwyd of Abergele, politician (died 1955)
*August 17 - Joseph Harry, minister, writer and teacher (died 1950)
*August 29 - Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, magistrate (died 1940)
*October 7 - Sir William Davies, journalist (died 1935)

Deaths

*February 17 - Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd), poet, 60
*February 28 - David Williams (Alaw Goch), industrialist, 53
*March 24 - Thomas Powell, industrialist, 84
*April 13 - George Cornewall Lewis, statesman, 56
*May/June - David Bevan Jones (Dewi Elfed), Mormon leader, 55
*July 15 - Edward Pryce Owen, artist, 75
*November 8 - Joseph Hughes (Carn Ingli), poet, 60
*December 13 - Robert Saunderson, printer, 83