1867 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1867 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people.

Incumbent[]

• Monarch - Victoria

Events[]

• 3 June – The opening of the Anglesey Central Railway to passenger traffic links Amlwch to the rail network for the first time.^[1]
• 19 August – The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public.^[2]
• 2 September – The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.^[1]
• 10 October – Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary opens to rail traffic, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.^[3]
• 27 October – A sailing ship, the Earl of Chester, is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of 14 lives.
• 8 November – 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
• date unknown
  • John Graham Chambers revises the Marquess of Queensberry rules for boxing.
  • Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
  • The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.^[4]

Arts and literature[]

Awards[]

• At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.

New books[]

• Rhoda Broughton – Cometh Up as a Flower^[5]
• – The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes
• – Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau
• Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan - Penhow Castle
• William Thomas (Islwyn) – Caniadau
• Alfred Russel Wallace – The Malay Archipelago
• Charles Wilkins – The History of Merthyr Tydfil

Music[]

• – Llyfr y Psalmau

Sport[]

• Boxing – The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published.

Births[]

• 10 March
  • , philanthropist (d. 1945)
  • William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922)
  • 10 April – Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, peer (d. 1934)
• 2 May – Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926)^[6]
• 13 May – Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)^[7]
• 15 May – Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
• 21 May – John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)^[8]
• 26 May – Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901–1910 (d. 1953)
• 29 September – John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)
• 6 October – Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player
• 12 October – Lyn Harding, actor (d. 1952)
• 2 November – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899)
• 28 November – James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944)
• 18 December – David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East (d. 1933)^[9]
• date unknown
  • Mia Arnesby Brown, born Mia Sarah H. Edwards, painter of children's portraits (d. 1931)
  • Fred Hutchinson, rugby player (d. 1941)

Deaths[]

• 15 February – Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82^[10]
• 18 February – , poet, 48
• 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64^[11]
• 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79^[12]
• 12 September – Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67^[13]
• 16 November – Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59^[14]
• 1 December – William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74

References[]