1869 in Wales

1869 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 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

Events

*January
**Henry Austin Bruce becomes MP for Renfrewshire.
**Timothy Richards Lewis goes to India to study cholera.
*May - The "Western Mail" is published for the first time.
*May 19 - Two days after John Young, the English manager of the nearby Leeswood Green colliery, announces a pay cut, he is attacked by some of his workers.
*June 2 - Seven men are tried at Mold for attacking John Young. A riot breaks out as those convicted are being transported to the railway station; soldiers fire on the crowd, killing four people.
*June 10 - Three people are killed in a derailment at Maesycymmer in Glamorgan.
*October 30 - The first edition of the Welsh-language periodical, "Y Goleuad", is published.
*Anti-Irish riots at Pontlottyn in the Rhymney Valley result in one death.
*John Hughes of Merthyr Tydfil buys land near the Sea of Azov, where he develops an ironworks and founds the city of Yuzovka (later Donetsk).
*Construction of the fort at St Catherine's Island, off Tenby.
*Prehistoric burial remains are discovered at Parc le Breos on the Gower peninsula.
*Rail link is built from Greenfield to Holywell.
*Emmeline Lewis Lloyd attempts an ascent of the Matterhorn.
*John Owen of Tyn-llwyn is evicted from his farm for voting Tory.

Arts and literature

Awards

*The first official National Eisteddfod of Wales takes place at Holywell.

New books

*J. H. Clark - "History of Monmouthshire"
*John Hugh Evans - "Pryddest Goffa i Thomas Aubrey"
*Jane Hughes - "Galargan am y diweddar Barch. Henry Rees, Liverpool"
*David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) - "Yr Ysgol Farddol"
*Nathaniel Jones (Cynhafal) - "Elias y Thesbiad"
*William Rowlands - "Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry (Bibliography of the Welsh)" (posthumous; ed. Daniel Silvan Evans)
*Jane Williams (Ysgafell) - "A History of Wales derived from Authentic Sources"
*Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) - "Y Geninen"

Music

*Owen Jones - "Hymnau Hen a Diweddar" (collection of hymns)

port

*Football - Ruabon footballers set up a club at Plas Madoc.

Births

*April 9 - John Hugh Edwards, politician (died 1945)
*May 20 - Robert Griffith Berry, minister and writer (died 1945)
*May 30 - Thomas Rees, theologian (died 1926)
*September 6 - Walford Davies, composer (died 1944)
*November 9 - Osbert Fynes-Clinton, dialectologist (died 1941)
*November 12 - Arthur Leonard Leach, geologist and archaeologist (died 1957)

Deaths

*March 31 - David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr), Nonconformist leader and author
*April 16 - James Davies (Iago ap Dewi), poet (born 1800)
*May 12 - Thomas Walter Price (Cuhelyn), journalist and poet (born 1829)
*July 14 - Lloyd Kenyon, 3rd Baron Kenyon (born 1805)
*October - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet (born 1810)
*December 17 - Sarah Jacob, "the fasting girl" (born 1857)


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