1878 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1878 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- March
- The 'basic' process, enabling the use of phosphoric iron ore in steelmaking, developed at the failing Blaenavon Ironworks by Percy Gilchrist and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, is first made public.[1]
- The Swansea Improvements and Tramway Company SITC) opens a street tramway from Gower Street, Swansea, to join up with the Oystermouth Railway.[2]
- 16–17 July – Spanish seaman Joseph Garcia, just released from Usk Prison, murders all 5 members of the Watkins family at Llangybi, Monmouthshire.[3]
- 17 July – Swansea tramways are forced by legal action to return to horse-drawn operation after experimenting with steam locomotives.[4]
- 11 September – In a mining accident at the Prince of Wales Colliery, Abercarn, 268 men are killed.[5]
- Founding of Dr Williams School for Girls at Dolgellau.[6]
- Opening of Marine Drive around the Great Orme at Llandudno.
- A passenger ferry service is established between Bangor and Porthaethwy on the Menai Strait.
- Industrialist John Corbett buys Ynysymaengwyn.
- The prison system in Wales is nationalised and brought under centralised government control.[7]
- Nanteos Cup first exhibited.
Arts and literature
New books
- Daniel Silvan Evans – Celtic Remains
- William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Llythyrau 'Rhen Ffarmwr
Music
- John Owen (Owain Alaw) – Jeremiah (oratorio)
Sport
Births
- 4 January – Augustus John, painter (died 1961)
- 30 January – Reg Skrimshire, Wales and British Lions rugby union player (died 1963)
- 24 February – Lou Phillips, Wales international rugby player (killed in action 1916)
- 3 March – Edward Thomas, poet (killed in action 1917)
- 12 March – Mary Sophia Allen, women's rights activist (died 1964)
- 15 March – Thomas Richards, historian and librarian (died 1962)[8]
- 21 March – Edwin Thomas Maynard, Wales international rugby player (died 1961)
- 16 April – Owen Thomas Jones, geologist (died 1967)
- 26 May – Abel J. Jones, writer (died 1949)
- 5 June – Billy O'Neill, Wales national rugby player (died 1955)
- 8 June – Evan Roberts, religious revivalist (died 1951)[9]
- 20 June – Seymour Farmer, politician in Canada (died 1951)
- 1 July – Billy Trew, rugby player and Welsh Triple Crown winning captain (died 1926)
- 27 August – Edgar Rees Jones, lawyer and politician (died 1962)
- 28 October – Charles Benjamin Redrup, aeronautical engineer (died 1961)
- 30 October – Caradog Roberts, musician (died 1935)[10]
- 8 November – Dorothea Bate, palaeontologist (died 1951)
- 31 December – Caradoc Evans, writer (died 1945)
- date unknown – Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan), Welsh language short story writer (died 1919)
Deaths
- 16 February – Alexander Jones, footballer, 23 (accidentally shot)[11]
- 25 February – Townsend Harris, Welsh-descended American diplomat, 73[12]
- 30 March – Peter Maurice, priest and writer, 74[13]
- 4 July – William Roos, Welsh artist and engraver, 70[14]
- 13 August – Francis Rice, 5th Baron Dynevor, 74[15]
- 30 September – Evan James, poet, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem, 69
- 18 November – John Jones (Mathetes), clergyman and writer, 57
- 20 November – William Thomas (Islwyn), poet, 46[16]
- 25 November – Llewelyn Lewellin, clergyman and academic, 80[17]
- 5 December – David Price, minister, 67[18]
- 13 December – David Charles, secretary of the University for Wales movement, 56
References
- ^ Davies, William Llewelyn (2009). "Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 9 November 2012.
- ^ The Tramway Review. Light Railway Transport League. 1993. p. 97.
- ^ Williams, Roger (2004). Their Deadly Trade: Murders in Monmouthshire. Llandysul: Gomer Press. ISBN 1-84323-389-4.
- ^ The Tramway Review. Light Railway Transport League. 1993. p. 100.
- ^ United States Department of State (1897). Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 593.
- ^ W. Gareth Evans (1 January 1990). Education and Female Emancipation: The Welsh Experience, 1847–1914. University of Wales Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-7083-1079-3.
- ^ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
- ^ Gwilym Beynon Owen. "Richards, Thomas (1878–1962), librarian and historian". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Roberts, Evan (1878–1951), 'Y Diwygiwr (the Revivalist)' revivalist preacher". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "Roberts, Caradog (1878–1935), musician". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ Davies, Gareth; Garland, Ian (1991). Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players. Bridge Books. ISBN 1-872424-11-2.
- ^ David Shavit (1990). The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 218. ISBN 978-0-313-26788-8.
- ^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Herald Office. p. 353.
- ^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1912). Welsh Painters, Engravers, Sculptors (1527–1911). Welsh Publishing Company. p. 125.
- ^ The Illustrated London News. William Little. 1878. p. 167.
- ^ David Gwenallt Jones. "THOMAS, WILLIAM (Islwyn; 1832–1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
- ^ Thomas Iorwerth. "Lewellin, Llewelyn (1798–1878), cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 October 2019.
- ^ "Funeral of a Dissenting Minister at Aberdare". Cardiff Times. 14 December 1878. Retrieved 22 January 2014.