1860 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1860 to Wales and its people.

← 1859 1858 1857 1856 1855 1860 in Wales → 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1860 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales — vacant

Events

• 28 February — A paddle steamer, Nimrod, is wrecked off St David's Head, and 45 people are killed.[1]
• 1 March — First section of Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway opens to a station in Carmarthen; on 3 September it extends over the course of what becomes known as the Gwili Railway to Conwil.
• 7 March — HMS Howe, the Royal Navy’s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line, is launched at Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.[2]
• 1 May — First section of Oswestry and Newtown Railway opens from Oswestry (Shropshire) to Pool Quay; on 14 August it extends to Welshpool and also opens between Abermule and Newtown. These lines have been built by David Davies Llandinam and Thomas Savin but on 29 October Davies dissolves their partnership.[3]
• 23 August — Consecration of Marble Church, Bodelwyddan.[4]
• 24 November - A statue of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey is added to the column built in his honour by Thomas Harrison earlier in the century.[5]
• 1 December — The sixth underground explosion in the Risca Black Vein Pit at Crosskeys in the Sirhowy Valley of Monmouthshire kills 142 coal miners.[6][7]
• Four gun batteries are installed on Flat Holm.
• Discovery of Gwynfynydd Gold Mine gold mine at Dolgellau.
• Founding of the Danygraig Copperworks.[8]
• The Big Pit at Blaenavon begins producing coal.[9]
• Nixon's Navigation Colliery at Mountain Ash opened, becoming the first true deep pit in South Wales.[10]
• A mosque is founded in Cardiff Bay; it is sometimes incorrectly claimed as the first mosque in the UK.[11]
• Excavation of Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles.
• The Beaufort Tinplate Works is set up on the River Tawe by John Jones Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe.[12]
• approx. date — Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey adopts the long form of its name.

Arts and literature

Awards

• At the Denbigh eisteddfod, a decision is made to launch a national eisteddfod.
• An eisteddfod is held at Utica, New York.

New books

• John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Hwyr
• Thomas Phillips — The Welsh Revival: Its Origin and Development
• William Rowlands — Dammeg y Mab Afradlon

Music

• John Owen (Owain Alaw) — Gems of Welsh Melody (including the first Welsh lyric for March of the Men of Harlech, written by John Jones (Talhaiarn), and the first printing of Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau)[13]

Sport

• The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.
• Oswestry Town F.C. is founded.

Births

• 21 February – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor (died 1952)[14]
• 25 March – Jack Powell, footballer (died 1947
• 29 March – Edward Peake, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
• 14 April – Howell Elvet Lewis (Elved), poet and archdruid (died 1953)
• 19 April – William Penfro Rowlands, composer (died 1937)
• 12 May – Sir John Ballinger, librarian (died 1933)
• 24 May – Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, lawyer and politician (died 1926)
• 6 June – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet (died 1944)
• 30 July – Richard Summers, Wales rugby union international (died 1941)
• 6 September – George Florance Irby, 6th Baron Boston, landowner and scientist (died 1941)
• 25 September – Thomas Francis Roberts, academic (died 1919)
• 31 December – Horace Lyne, Wales international rugby player and WRU president (died 1949)
• date unknown
  • Sir William Price (died 1938)

Deaths

• 26 January – Thomas Wood, politician, 82[15]
• 21 March – John Lloyd Davies, politician[16]
• 4 May – William Ormsby-Gore, politician, 81
• 1 July – Robert Thomas, printer and newspaper proprietor who settled in Australia, 78[17]
• 17 July – Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse, 71[18]
• 31 August – John Parker, clergyman and artist, 61[19]
• 13 November – David Dale Owen, geologist in the USA, 53[20]
• 27 November – Richard Richards, politician, 73[21]

References

1. "Loss of the Nimrod, Liverpool and Cork steamer, with all on board". Daily Southern Cross. 29 May 1860. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
2. Howard J. Fuller (2008). Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 16. ISBN 978-0-313-34590-6.
3. Christiansen, Rex; Miller, R. W. (1971). The Cambrian Railways. 1 (new ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. pp. 31–2. ISBN 0-7153-5236-9.
4. John Hicklin (of Chester.) (1863). The illustrated hand-book of North Wales: being the 5th ed. of Hemingway's Panorama, with revisions and additions. p. 50.
5. Gwyn Headley; Wim Meulenkamp (1999). Follies, Grottoes & Garden Buildings. Aurum. p. 94. ISBN 978-1-85410-625-4.
6. Jukes, Tony. "The development of Risca". Risca Industrial History Museum & OHIHS. Archived from the original on 29 September 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
7. "Risca Colliery". CoalHouse. BBC. 2008. Retrieved 18 October 2010.
8. Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil.) (1903). The history of the iron, steel, tinplate and ... other trades of Wales: with descriptive sketches of the land and the people during the great industrial era under review. p. 371.
9. Industrial Archaeology. David & Charles. 1988. p. 58.
10. Evans, Jonathan (2010). "The Age of Coal". People, Politics and Print (PDF) (Ph.D). ProQuest. Retrieved 29 April 2014.
11. Sophie Gilliat-Ray (10 June 2010). Muslims in Britain. Cambridge University Press. p. 36. ISBN 978-0-521-53688-2.
12. John Newman; Stephen R. Hughes; Anthony Ward (1995). Glamorgan: (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan). Penguin Books. p. 398. ISBN 978-0-14-071056-4.
13. Alison Latham (2004). The Oxford Dictionary of Musical Works. Oxford University Press. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-19-861020-5.
14. Paul Joyner. "John, Sir William Goscombe (1860-1952), sculptor and medallist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 October 2019.
15. Thomas Wood, M.P., Parliamentary Representative for Brecknockshire, 1806-47. Brecknock Museum Publication. 1978. p. 31.
16. Williams, Griffith John. "John Lloyd Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
17. Mennell, Philip (1892). "Thomas, Robert" . The Dictionary of Australasian Biography. London: Hutchinson & Co – via Wikisource.
18. "Davis, Elizabeth (1789-1860), Crimean nurse". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 March 2019.
19. William Llewelyn Davies. "Parker, John (1798-1860), cleric and artist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
20. Estabrook, Arthur H. (1923). "The Family History of Robert Owen". Indiana Magazine of History. Bloomington: Indiana University. 19 (1): 63–101. Retrieved 29 August 2017.
21. Nobody's Friends, London (1885). The Club of "Nobody's Friends,": Since Its Foundation on 21 June 1800, to. p. 41.