- 1857 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 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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May 6 - Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails forTennessee .
*October 14 - Four people are killed in arailway accident nearPyle .
*Opening of the Crumlin viaduct, built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of theNewport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway .
*Thomas Gee launches the periodical "Baner Cymru".
*John Bowen becomes Bishop ofSierra Leone .
*William Owen Stanley becomes MP for Anglesey Boroughs.
*"The Newport Gazette" is founded by William Nicholas Johns.
*Railway workers go on strike atAberdare .Arts and literature
Awards
New books
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Owen Wynne Jones - "Dafydd Llwyd"
*Richard Williams Morgan - "The British Kymry or Britons of Cambria"
*Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) - "Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri"Music
*John Ashton - "Trefeglwys" (
hymn tune )Births
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February 7 -Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952)
*28 February -Charlie Newman , Wales rugby union captain (died 1922)
*May 12 -Sarah Jacob , the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
*June 28 -Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet , orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
*July 1 -Martha Hughes Cannon , women's rights activist and politician in the USA (died 1932)
*November 14 -John Thomas Rees , musician (died 1949)
*December 2 - SirRobert Armstrong-Jones , surgeon (died 1943)Deaths
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February 10 - David Thompson, explorer of Welsh parentage, 86
*March 29 -Elijah Waring , writer, 69?
*May 16 - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer, 74
*August 12 -William Daniel Conybeare , dean of Llandaff, 70
*August 16 -John Jones (Talysarn) , leading non-conformist minister, 61
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