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.
- Corporation of the Borough of Holt is dissolved.
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)[1]
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[2]
References
- ^ http://yba.llgc.org.uk/en/s-OWEN-WIL-1813.html Dictionary of Welsh Biography entry]
- ^ Dictionary of Welsh Biography entry