1860s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1860 - 1869 to Wales and its people.

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Other events of the decade

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – Alexandra (from 1863)

Events

• 1860
• 1861
• 1862
• 1863
• 1864
• 1865
• 1866
• 1867
• 1868
• 1869

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales

• 1861 - Aberdare
• 1862 - Caernarfon
• 1863 - Swansea
• 1864 - Llandudno
• 1865 - Aberystwyth
• 1866 - Chester
• 1867 - Carmarthen - A crown is presented for the first time
• 1868 - Ruthin - The Eisteddfod Council is disbanded
• 1869 - Holywell

New books

• R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan (1864)
• George Borrow - Wild Wales (1862)
• Rhoda Broughton - Cometh up as a Flower (1867)
• Richard Davies (Mynyddog) - Caneuon Mynyddog (1866)
• Huw Derfel - Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn (1864)
• Robert Jones Derfel - Traethodau ac Areithiau (1864)
• John Ceiriog Hughes
  • Oriau'r Hwyr (1860)
  • Oriau'r Bore (1862)
  • Cant o Ganeuon (1863)
  • Y Bardd a'r Cerddor (1865)
  • Oriau eraill (1868)
• David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) - Yr Ysgol Farddol (1869)
• William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) - Emmanuel (1861)
• William Thomas (Islwyn) - Caniadau (1867)
• Robert Williams (Trebor Mai)
  • Fy Noswyl (1861)
  • Geninen (1869)
• Alfred Russel Wallace
  • The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of 'Natural Selection (1864)
  • The Malay Archipelago (1867)

Music

• William Griffiths (Ifander) - Gwarchae Harlech (cantata) (1864)
• Hugh Jerman - Deus Misereatur (1861)
• Henry Brinley Richards - "God Bless the Prince of Wales" (1863)
• John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia)
  • Llewelyn (cantata) (1863)
  • The Bride of Neath Valley (cantata) (1866)

Sport

• 1860 - The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.

Births

• 1860
  • date unknown - Sir William Price (died 1938)
• 1861
  • date unknown
    • John Edward Lloyd, historian (died 1947)
    • Thomas Mardy Rees, writer (died 1953)
• 1862
  • date unknown - John Daniel Evans, Patagonia settler
• 1863
  • January 17 - David Lloyd George, politician (died 1945)
  • March 3 - Arthur Machen, writer (died 1947)
• 1864
  • January 8 - Prince Albert Victor, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1892)
  • October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)
  • date unknown - Charles Alfred Howell Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)
• 1865
  • June 3 - Prince George, second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales and himself Prince of Wales 1901–1910 (later George V)
  • date unknown - William Brace, politician (died 1947)
• 1866
  • October 12 - James Ramsay MacDonald, politician (died 1937)
  • date unknown - John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes, poet and hymn-writer (died 1944)
• 1867
  • May 2 - Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (died 1926)
  • May 13 - Frank Brangwyn, artist (died 1956)
  • May 26 - Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1953)
  • September 29 - John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (died 1924)
• 1869
  • September 6 - Walford Davies, composer (died 1944)
  • date unknown
    • Thomas Rees, theologian (died 1926)
    • Osbert Fynes-Clinton, dialectologist (died 1941)

Deaths

• 1860
  • May 4 - William Ormsby-Gore, politician (born 1779)
  • July 17 - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (born 1789)
• 1861
  • May 8 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (born 1830)
• 1862
  • January 3 - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (born 1810)
  • date unknown - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary
• 1863
  • April - George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (born 1806)
• 1864
  • March 11 - Richard Roberts, engineer
  • August 1 - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)
  • date unknown
    • Evan Davies, missionary
    • Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible
• 1865
  • February 21 - Stapleton Cotton, military leader (born 1773)
• 1866
  • January 27 - John Gibson, sculptor (born 1790)
• 1867
  • April 27 - Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist (born 1802)
  • May 23 - William Crawshay II, industrialist (born 1788)
• 1868
  • June 22 - Owain Meirion, poet (born 1803)
  • date unknown - Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (born 1803)
• 1869
  • March 31 - David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr), Nonconformist leader and author
  • date unknown - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet (born 1810)