1887 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1887 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1887 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

18 February – 39 miners are killed in an accident at Standard Colliery, Ynyshir.
June – The Riot Act is read at Mochdre in the Vale of Clwyd at the height of a "Tithe War".
24 August – Roath Dock opened in Cardiff Docks; first sod of Roath Park dug.^[1]
November – The Helvetia wrecked off Worms Head, Rhossili (remains can still be seen at low tide).
New Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral completed.
The Turner House Gallery, Penarth, is built to house the art collection of Major James Pyke Thompson.
Opening of Wrexham School of Science and Art, predecessor of Wrexham Glyndŵr University.
Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn and Stuart Rendel affirm the Welsh Liberal Party's support of Irish Home Rule.^[2]
Richard John Lloyd Price establishes a Welsh whisky distillery on his Rhiwlas estate at Frongoch.^[3]

Football
- Chirk win the Welsh Cup for the first time.
- Knighton Town F.C. is founded.
Rugby union
- Ammanford RFC, Caerphilly RFC, Mumbles RFC, Newport RFC, Pontyclun RFC and Taffs Well RFC are established.
- Wales play their first international in Llanelli; though the original venue of Stradey Park is moved to a local cricket pitch due to a frozen pitch.

13 January – Hedd Wyn, poet (died 1917)
27 February – James Dickson Innes, landscape painter (died 1914)
23 March – Percy Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1969)
19 April – Bertrand Turnbull, Olympic hockey player (died 1943)
23 April – Len Trump, Wales international rugby player (died 1948)
13 July – Elizabeth Watkin-Jones, children's author (died 1966)
21 September – T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, author and academic (died 1975)
11 October – William Davies, national librarian (died 1952)
29 December – Jack Wetter, Wales international rugby union captain (died 1967)
Date unknown
- Bessie Jones, singer (died 1974)
- Artie Moore, wireless operator (died 1949)

25 January – Rowland Prichard, musician, 76^[5]
16 February – Richard Owen, preacher, 47
24 March – William Lucas Collins, priest and writer, 71
11 April – Samuel Bowen, Independent minister, 87^[6]
23 April – John Ceiriog Hughes, poet, 54
3 May – Robert John Hussey Vivian, infantry officer, illegitimate member of the Vivian family, 84/5^[7]
28 May – Dan Isaac Davies, educationist, 48^[8]
19 July – Lewis Edwards, educationist, 77
1 August – Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere, politician, 75^[9]
11 August – Sir Richard Green-Price, 1st Baronet, politician, 83
7 November – Joshua T. Owen, Welsh-born educator, politician, and soldier in the Union army during the American Civil War, 66

^ "Opening of the Roath Dock". Cardiff Times. 27 August 1887. p. 6. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
^ "Dillwyn". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
^ Winn, Christopher (2007). I Never Knew That About Wales. London: Ebury. ISBN 978-0-09-191858-3.
^ "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
^ Robert David Griffith. "Prichard, Rowland Huw (1812-1887), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
^ Richard Griffith Owen. "Bowen, Samuel (1799-1887), Macclesfield, Independent minister and teacher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
^ "Obituary". The Illustrated London News. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. 21 May 1887. p. 580. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
^ "DAVIES, DAN ISAAC (1839 - 1887), a pioneer of the teaching of Welsh in schools | Dictionary of Welsh Biography". biography.wales. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
^ Michael Stenton (1976). Who's who of British members of Parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons based on annual volumes of Dod's Parliamentary companion and other sources. The Harvester Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-85527-219-7.