1871 in Wales

1871 in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - Alexandra of Denmark

Events

*February 24 - In a mining accident at Pentre Colliery, Rhondda, 38 men are killed.
*March 21 - Henry Morton Stanley sets out for Africa to seek David Livingstone.
*June - Miners' strike in South Wales culminates in defeat for the union.
*November 10 - Stanley locates Livingstone in Tanzania, greeting him with the words, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
*Lewis Jones is appointed governor of Chubut Province by the government of Argentina.
*David Davies Llandinam constructs a railway from Caersws to the Van mines.
*Henry Hussey Vivian opens the White Rock lead treatment works in Swansea.

Arts and literature

Awards

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

New books

*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.

port

*Rugby union - Neath RFC is founded.

Births

*March 2 - William John Bancroft, sportsman (died 1959)
*March 28 - Silyn Roberts, Socialist and pacifist writer (died 1930)
*April 6 - Prince Alexander John of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died April 7 1871)
*April 12 - Ellis William Davies, politician (died 1939)
*April 15 - John Humphreys Davies, writer (died 1926)
*July 3 - W. H. Davies, poet (died 1940)
*October 1 - Sir Lewis Lougher, industrialist and politician (died 1955)
*October 10 - Thomas Gwynn Jones, poet (died 1949)
*November 27 - Robert Evans (Cybi), writer (died 1956)
*December 3 - Sir Percy Emerson Watkins, civil servant (died 1946)
*"date unknown"
**William Jenkins, politician (died 1944)
**Thomas Mardy Rees, historian and author (died 1953)

Deaths

*January 19 - Thomas Jeremy Griffiths, minister, hymn-writer and teacher
*August 2 - David James (Dewi o Ddyfed), writer (born 1803)


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