1886 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1886 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales — Alexandra
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales — Clwydfardd

Events

• 1 September — The Great Western Railway opens the Severn Tunnel to regular goods and mineral traffic (and to passengers on 1 December).
• September — Opening of the Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre.
• 15 October
  • 20 people are drowned when the sailing ship Malleny is wrecked on Tusker Rocks, Porthcawl.
  • 18 people are drowned when the sailing ship Teviotdale is wrecked on Cefn Sidan Sands in Carmarthenshire.
• November
  • Serious flooding in Aberystwyth.
  • The keeper of the Mumbles lighthouse is swept out to sea and drowned.
  • The rivers Mawddach, Dee and Taff all flood.
• Cantref Reservoir on the Taff Fawr completed.
• Opening of the Cardiff Stock Exchange
• Cymru Fydd is founded by the Liberal Party to further the cause of home rule.
• The Welsh Land League is founded.
• Beginning of tithe revolt in Denbighshire.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales — held at Caernarfon

• Chair — Richard Davies
• Crown — John Cadfan Davies

New books

• Rhoda Broughton — Doctor Cupid

Music

• William Owen "of Prysgol" - Y Perl Cerddorol yn cynnwys tonau ac anthemau, cysegredig a moesol (sol-fa edition)

Sport

• Football — Druids win the Welsh Cup for the fifth time in its nine-year history.
• Rugby union — Abercynon RFC and Treorchy RFC founded.

Births

• 3 March — Jack Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1951)
• 4 March - Rowland Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1914)
• 5 March — Freddie Welsh, Lightweight boxing champion of the world (died 1927)
• 14 March — David Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1916)
• 16 March - James Llewellyn Davies, VC winner (died 1917)
• 28 March — John Osborn Williams, entrepreneur (died 1963)
• 3 May — Morgan Jones, Welsh politician (died 1939)
• 6 June — John Morgan, Archbishop of Wales (died 1957)
• 17 June — David Brunt, meteorologist (died 1965)
• 11 July — Ernest Willows, aviation pioneer (died 1926)
• 13 July — Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams), poet (died 1961)
• 22 September - Bil Perry, Welsh international rugby player (died 1970)
• 29 September — Jack Williams, VC recipient (died 1953)
• 9 November (probable) - S. O. Davies, politician (died 1972)
• 10 November — Fred Birt, Wales international rugby union player (died 1956)
• 22 December - David James Jones, philosopher and academic (died 1947)

Deaths

• 28 February — John Jones, politician, 73
• 31 March — Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, 85
• 9 July — Roger Edwards, minister and writer, 75
• 13 October — John Prichard, architect, 69
• 29 October - Evan Evans, ("Evans Bach Nantyglo"), minister, 82