1871 in Wales

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

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

Incumbents

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

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

Sport

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

Deaths
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References
  1. Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1897. p. 593.
  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.
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