1861 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1861 to Wales and its people.

1861
in
Wales

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
See also:
1861 in
The United Kingdom
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events

  • 30 May - In a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Richard Grosvenor becomes MP for Flintshire, holding it on behalf of the Liberals.
  • 10 June - The Oswestry and Newtown Railway is completed throughout by opening of the section between Abermule and Newtown, giving through rail communication from England to Llanidloes.[1]
  • July - Baner ac Amserau Cymru begins twice-weekly publication.
  • date unknown
    • Japanese knotweed is recorded at Maesteg - the first record of it growing wild in the UK.
    • Excavation of Long Hole Cave in Glamorgan reveals prehistoric flint artefacts.[2]
    • Pryce Pryce-Jones starts his mail order company in Newtown, Montgomeryshire.
    • John Dillwyn-Llewelyn marries Caroline Hicks Beach.
    • Griffith John becomes the first Christian missionary to penetrate into central China.

Arts and literature

Awards

New books

Music

  • Hugh Jerman - Deus Misereatur

Sport

  • Cricket
    • 18 July - South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's.

Births

Deaths

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References

  1. Christiansen, Rex; Miller, R. W. (1971). The Cambrian Railways. 1 (new ed.). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5236-9.
  2. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales (1976). An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-11-700588-4.
  3. James Duff Brown; Stephen Samuel Stratton (1897). British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors, and Composers Born in Britain and Its Colonies. S.S. Stratton. p. 117ad.
  4. Leopold George Wickham Legg; Edgar Trevor Williams (1959). The Dictionary of National Biography, 1941-1950. Oxford University Press. p. 514.
  5. Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1868. p. 856.
  6. Richard Williams (1894). Montgomeryshire Worthies. Phillips & Son. pp. 264–5.
  7. Richard Parry (1861). Llandudno: its history and natural history. p. 23.
  8. Walter Bagehot (1986). The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Miscellany. Harvard University Press. p. 90.
  9. Fisher, D.R. (2009). The House of Commons, 1820–1832: Addams Williams, William (1787–1861), of Llangibby Castle, Mon. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press Series: History of Parliament. ISBN 9780521193146. Retrieved 21 May 2012.
  10. Samuel Maunder (1868). The Biographical Treasury a Dictionary of Universal Biography by Samuel Maunder, Author of The Treasury of Knowledge . Longman, Green, Reader, and Dyer. p. 406.
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