1869 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1869 to Wales and its people.

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Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
See also:
1869 in
The United Kingdom
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events
  • January
  • 1 May – The Western Mail is published for the first time.[1]
  • 19 May – Two days after John Young, the English manager of the Leeswood Green colliery, announces a pay cut, he is attacked by some of his workers.
  • 2 June – Seven men are tried at Mold for attacking John Young. A riot breaks out as those convicted are being transported to the railway station; soldiers fire on the crowd, killing four people.[2]
  • 10 June – Three people are killed in a train derailment at Maesycwmmer in Glamorgan.
  • 1 September – The Dyserth branch line is opened for goods traffic.
  • 30 October – The first edition of the Welsh-language periodical, Y Goleuad, is published.
  • Anti-Irish riots at Pontlottyn in the Rhymney Valley result in one death.
  • Landore steelworks at Swansea established by Carl Wilhelm Siemens.[3]
  • John Hughes of Merthyr Tydfil buys land near the Sea of Azov, where he develops an ironworks and founds the city of Yuzovka (later Donetsk).
  • Joseph Leycester Lyne (Father Ignatius of Jesus) acquires land at Capel-y-ffin and begins construction of an Anglican Benedictine community, Llanthony Abbey
  • 24th December Charles Dickens gives a free performance at the grand theater: Taliesin Lodge.
  • Construction of the fort at St Catherine's Island, off Tenby.
  • Prehistoric burial remains are discovered at Parc le Breos on the Gower Peninsula.
  • John Owen of Tyn-llwyn is evicted from his farm for voting Tory.

Arts and literature

Awards

New books
  • J. H. Clark – History of Monmouthshire
  • John Hugh Evans – Pryddest Goffa i Thomas Aubrey
  • Jane Hughes – Galargan am y diweddar Barch. Henry Rees, Liverpool
  • David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) – Yr Ysgol Farddol
  • Nathaniel Jones (Cynhafal) – Elias y Thesbiad
  • John Petherick – Travels in Central Africa and Explorations of the Western Nile Tributaries
  • William Rowlands – Llyfryddiaeth y Cymry (Bibliography of the Welsh) (posthumous; ed. Daniel Silvan Evans)
  • Jane Williams (Ysgafell) – A History of Wales derived from Authentic Sources
  • Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) – Y Geninen

Music
  • Owen Jones – Hymnau Hen a Diweddar (collection of hymns)

Sport

Births
  • 11 January – Ralph Sweet-Escott, English born, Wales rugby international (died 1907)
  • 9 April – John Hugh Edwards, politician (died 1945)
  • 19 May – John Henry Williams, Welsh politician (died 1936)
  • 20 May – Robert Griffith Berry, minister and writer (died 1945)
  • 30 May – Thomas Rees, theologian (died 1926)
  • 12 August – Fred Parfitt, Wales international rugby player (died 1953)
  • 6 September – Walford Davies, composer (died 1944)
  • 24 September – Maud Cunnington, archaeologist (died 1951)
  • 29 October – Bill Morris, Wales international rugby player (died 1946)
  • 9 November – Osbert Fynes-Clinton, dialectologist (died 1941)
  • 12 November – Arthur Leonard Leach, geologist and archaeologist (died 1957)
  • 15 November – Percy Bennett, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
  • 20 November – Herbert Tudor Buckland, architect working in Birmingham (died 1951)
  • 26 November – Princess Maud of Wales, queen consort of Norway (died 1938)

Deaths

References
  1. Wales Online, "First ever Western Mail edition: May 1, 1869". Accessed 12 December 2013
  2. "The Riot in Wales". The Times (26455). London. 4 June 1869. p. 12.
  3. The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. 2008.
  4. "Death of the Baroness Windsor", The Cardiff and Merthyr Guardian, 13 November 1869, p.5
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