1857 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1857 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 to Wales and its people.

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4 March — Thomas Gee launches the radical nonconformist newspaper Baner Cymru in Denbigh.^[1]
24 March — 1857 United Kingdom general election, concludes. Anglesey antiquarian William Owen Stanley becomes Whig MP for the Beaumaris District of Boroughs.^[2]
6 May — Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails for Tennessee.
1 June — Opening of the Crumlin Viaduct, built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway.^[3]
10 August — John Bowen is consecrated as Bishop of Sierra Leone.
13 August — Eugene Goddard crosses the Menai Strait in his gas balloon Aurora from Caernarfon Castle to Llanidan.^[4]
3 October — The Newport Gazette is founded by William Nicholas Johns.
14 October — Four people are killed in a railway accident near Pyle.
29 October — St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, badly damaged by arson.
Autumn — Aberdare Strike 1857-8 against reductions in coal miners' pay begins.
Railway workers go on strike at Aberdare.^{[citation needed]}

2 February - Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician and ship-owner (died 1933)
7 February — Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952)
28 February — Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain (died 1922)
27 April — Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player (died 1933)
12 May — Sarah Jacob, the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
20 June — Dan Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
28 June — Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
1 July — Martha Hughes Cannon, women's rights activist and politician in the United States (died 1932)
19 September — James Bridie, Scottish-born Wales international rugby union player (died 1893 in England)
8 November — Frank Purdon, Wales rugby union international
14 November — , musician (died 1949)
2 December — Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, surgeon (died 1943)
Llewellyn Cadwaladr, operatic tenor (died 1909)

^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (2001). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian. The Society. p. 112.
^ Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales. Longmans, Green, Reader. pp. 48–.
^ John Elliott (2004). The Industrial Development of the Ebbw Valleys, 1780-1914. University of Wales Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-7083-1890-4.
^ Hughes, T. Meirion (2014). "Some Feat over a Century and a Half Ago". Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time. Talybont: Y Lolfa. pp. 77–81. ISBN 978-1-847-71930-0.
^ Neil Evans (17 February 2016). Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950. Routledge. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-134-78661-9.
^ National Library of Wales (1985). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Council of the National Library of Wales.