1867 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 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

*July - First appearance of "Yr Awstralydd", a Welsh-language journal published in Australia and edited by William Meirion Evans and Theophilus Williams.
*October 27 - A sailing ship, the "Earl of Chester", is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of 14 lives.
*November 8 - 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
*John Graham Chambers revises the Marquess of Queensberry rules.
*Celtic Congress held at Brieuc in Brittany.
*The Mawddach rail bridge opens and Barmouth is linked to the rail network for the first time.
*Amlwch is linked to the rail network for the first time.
*Railway lines open between Caernarfon and Porthmadog and between Prestatyn and Dyserth.
*The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.
*Rhyl pier is built, at a cost of £23,000.

Arts and literature

Awards

*At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.

New books

*Rhoda Broughton - "Cometh up as a Flower"
*Edward Hamer - "The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes"
*Jabez Edmund Jenkins - "Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau"
*William Thomas (Islwyn) - "Caniadau"
*Alfred Russel Wallace - "The Malay Archipelago"
*Charles Wilkins - "The History of Merthyr Tydfil"

Music

*David Roberts (Alawydd) - "Llyfr y Psalmau"

port

*Boxing - The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published.

Births

*March 10
**Sir William James Thomas, Baronet, philanthropist (d. 1945)
**William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922)
*May 2 - Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926)
*May 13 - Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)
*May 15 - Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
*May 21 - John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)
*May 26 - Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (d. 1953)
*September 29 - John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)
*November 2 - Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899)
*November 28 - James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944)

Deaths

*February 15 - Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82
*April 27 - Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64
*August 4 - William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79
*September 12 - Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67
*December 1 - William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74