- 1858 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1858 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of QueenVictoria of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"Events
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April 20 -John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is given a conditional pardon for his role in theRebecca Riots .
*August 29 - MusicianRobert Davies (Asaph Llechid) is killed by a rockfall while at work in Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry.
*October 13 - 20 men are killed in a mining accident at Lower Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.
*Bangor Normal College is founded byHugh Owen .
*David Davies Llandinam builds the Vale of Clwyd Railway.
*Erection of the Town Clock atTredegar .
*Major GeneralCharles Hinde plays a major role in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny.Arts and literature
Awards
*"Great Eisteddfod" at
Llangollen ; early appearance of Gorsedd ceremony.Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) wins first prize for his poem "Maes Bosworth".New books
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Anne Beale - "Gladys of Harlech"
*William Davies (Gwilym Teilo) - "Llandilo-Vawr and its Neighbourhood"
*Owen Wynne Jones - "Lleucu Llwyd"
*Alfred Russel Wallace - "On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type"Music
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Thomas Gruffydd Jones (Tafalaw Bencerdd) - "Y Drysorfa Gorawl"
*Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) - "Requiem"Births
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January 6 - Ben Davies, singer (died 1943)
*January 28 -Edgeworth David , explorer (died 1934)
*October 8 -Robert Owen Hughes (Elfyn), journalist and poet (died 1919)
*October 25 -Tom Clapp , Wales rugby union captain
*December 18 - SirOwen Thomas , soldier and politician
*December 26 - SirOwen Morgan Edwards , academic and author (died 1920)
*December 27 - SirJohn Herbert Lewis , lawyer and politician (died 1933)
*December 28 -Josiah Towyn Jones , politicianDeaths
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May 13 -Lewis Loyd , banker, 91
*July 4 -Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch) , lexicographer, 78
*October 16 -Charles Norris , artist, 79
*November 17 -Robert Owen , founder of the Co-operative Society, 87
*November 20 -Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet , ironmaster, 75
*December 18 -John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury , nephew ofHester Thrale , 65
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