1871 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1871 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1871 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
Princess of Wales – Alexandra

Events

24 February – In a mining accident at Pentre Colliery, Rhondda, 38 men are killed.[1]
21 March – Welsh-born journalist Henry Morton Stanley sets out for Africa to seek missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone.
June – Miners' strike in South Wales culminates in defeat for the union.
14 August – The Van Railway, built by David Davies Llandinam, opens to carry traffic from the Van lead mines to Caersws.
10 November – Stanley locates Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika,[2] and allegedly greets him saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
date unknown
- Lewis Jones is appointed governor of Chubut Province by the government of Argentina.[3]
- Operations at the White Rock smelting works in Swansea are extended by Henry Hussey Vivian to include the treatment of silver and lead ore.[4]

Arts and literature

Awards

Evan Jones (Gurnos) wins a bardic chair at Ystradyfodwg.

New books

W. R. Ambrose – Hynafiaethau, Cofiannau a Hanes Presennol Nant Nantlle, y Traethawd Buddugol yn Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Pen-y-groes
Robert Fowler, MD – A Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl
James Kenward – Ab Ithel

Music

John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) is appointed harpist to Queen Victoria.

Sport

Rugby union – Neath RFC is founded.

Births

5 January – Percy Lloyd, Wales national rugby player (died 1959)
23 February – Jack Evans, Wales national rugby player (died 1924)
2 March – Billy Bancroft, sportsman (died 1959)
28 March – Silyn Roberts, Socialist and pacifist writer (died 1930)
1 April - Dai St. John, heavyweight boxer (died 1899)
6 April – Prince Alexander John of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1871)
12 April – Ellis William Davies, politician (died 1939)
15 April – John Humphreys Davies, writer (died 1926)
11 May – George Howells, academic and writer (died 1955)
6 June – Evan Lloyd, Wales international rugby player (died 1951)
14 June – David Nicholl, rugby player (died 1918)
July - Owen Jones, footballer (died 1955)
2 July – Sir Evan Williams, 1st Baronet, industrialist (died 1959)
3 July – W. H. Davies, poet (died 1940)
13 August – Jack Elliott, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
21 September – Alfred Brice, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
1 October – Sir Lewis Lougher, industrialist and politician (died 1955)
10 October – Thomas Gwynn Jones, poet (died 1949)
3 November – Owen Badger, Wales national rugby player (died 1939)
27 November – Robert Evans (Cybi), writer (died 1956)
1 December – Bert Dauncey, Wales international rugby player (died 1955)
3 December – Sir Percy Emerson Watkins, civil servant (died 1946)
date unknown
- William Jenkins, politician (died 1944)
- Howard Passadoro, footballer (died 1921)
- Thomas Mardy Rees, historian and author (died 1953)

Deaths

19 January – Thomas Jeremy Griffiths, minister, hymn-writer and teacher
30 January – Edward Howell, US politician of Welsh descent, 78
February – Robert Roberts, musician, 30[5]
23 July – Arthur James Johnes, judge, 62[6]
2 August – David James (Dewi o Ddyfed), writer (born 1803)
6 October – Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 59[7]

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References

Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1897. p. 593.
Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
Reference Wales. University of Wales Press. 1994. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-7083-1234-6.
Stephen J. Lavender (1981). New Land for Old: The Environmental Renaissance of the Lower Swansea Valley. A. Hilger. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-85274-386-7.
Robert David Griffith. "Roberts, Robert (1840-1871), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thomas, Daniel Lleufer (1892). "Johnes, Arthur James". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Edmund Burke (1872). The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year. Longmans, Green. p. 161.

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[1] Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1897. p. 593.

[Pocket_On_This_Day-2] Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.

[3] Reference Wales. University of Wales Press. 1994. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-7083-1234-6.

[4] Stephen J. Lavender (1981). New Land for Old: The Environmental Renaissance of the Lower Swansea Valley. A. Hilger. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-85274-386-7.

[5] Robert David Griffith. "Roberts, Robert (1840-1871), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 March 2019.

[6] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thomas, Daniel Lleufer (1892). "Johnes, Arthur James". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[7] Edmund Burke (1872). The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year. Longmans, Green. p. 161.