1877 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1877 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1877 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch - Victoria
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd^[1]

Events[]

• 8 March – In a mining accident at Worcester Colliery, Swansea, seventeen men are killed.^[2]
• 11 April – In a mining accident at Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda, five men are killed by flooding.^[3] Twenty-five of the rescue team are awarded the Albert Medal for bravery.
• 10 July – Consecration of new Merthyr Synagogue, the oldest surviving synagogue building in Wales.
• 1 August – Opening of new Llandudno Pier.^[4]
• 15 August – Opening to passengers of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways from Dinas to Tryfan Junction and Bryngwyn.^[5]
• 30 November – Opening of the new market hall at Builth Wells by Sir Joseph Bailey M.P.
• Opening of Stepaside, Pembrokeshire village school (part of modern-day Stepaside Heritage Park).
• Closure of lead mine at Loggerheads, Denbighshire.

Arts and literature[]

• Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert.

New books[]

• Richard Davies (Mynyddog) – Y Trydydd Cynnig^[6]
• William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr

Music[]

• Joseph Parry resigns from his position as Professor of Music at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Sport[]

• Football
  • The Racecourse Ground at Wrexham hosts Wales' first ever home international match, making it the world's oldest international football stadium still to host international matches.^[7]
  • The Welsh Cup is inaugurated.
• Rugby union
  • 8 November – Blaenavon RFC play their first game, against Abergavenny.

Births[]

• 2 May – Sid Bevan, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1933)
• 6 June (in Guernsey) – Herbert John Fleure, zoologist and geographer (died 1969)
• 9 June – George Travers, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
• 21 June – Elizabeth Mary Jones (Moelona), Welsh-language children's novelist (died 1953)
• 1 July – Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player (died 1957)
• 19 August – John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
• 17 September – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (died 1928)^[8]
• 26 September (in Wandsworth) – Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales)
• 5 October – Lily Gower, croquet player (died 1959)
• 27 October – David Harris Davies, Wales international rugby union player (died 1944)
• 7 November – Maurice Parry, footballer (died 1935)
• 27 November – Leigh Richmond Roose, football goalkeeper (killed in battle 1916)
• 2 December – John Strand-Jones, Wales international rugby union player (died 1958)

Deaths[]

• 9 January – Thomas Thomas, clergyman, 72
• 24 June – Robert Dale Owen, Welsh-American politician, 75^[9]
• 14 July – Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet, 44^[10]
• 18 July – , "father of Tasmanian journalism", 77
• 27 July – John Frost, Chartist leader, 93^[11]
• 5 August – Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet, 47^[12]
• 17 October – Charles Williams, academic, 73?
• 7 November – Calvert Jones, painter and pioneer photographer, 72^[13]
• 13 December – John Griffith (journalist), journalist who wrote under the pseudonym Y Gohebydd, 56^[14]

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