1871 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1871 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

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

Incumbents

Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
Princess of Wales – Alexandra

Events

24 February – In a mining accident at Pentre Colliery, Rhondda, 38 men are killed.^[1]
21 March – Welsh-born journalist Henry Morton Stanley sets out for Africa to seek missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone.
June – Miners' strike in South Wales culminates in defeat for the union.
14 August – The Van Railway, built by David Davies Llandinam, opens to carry traffic from the Van lead mines to Caersws.
10 November – Stanley locates Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika,^[2] and allegedly greets him saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
date unknown
- Lewis Jones is appointed governor of Chubut Province by the government of Argentina.^[3]
- Operations at the White Rock smelting works in Swansea are extended by Henry Hussey Vivian to include the treatment of silver and lead ore.^[4]

Arts and literature

Awards

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

New books

W. R. Ambrose – Hynafiaethau, Cofiannau a Hanes Presennol Nant Nantlle, y Traethawd Buddugol yn Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Pen-y-groes
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.

Sport

Rugby union – Neath RFC is founded.

Births

5 January – Percy Lloyd, Wales national rugby player (died 1959)
23 February – Jack Evans, Wales national rugby player (died 1924)
2 March – Billy Bancroft, sportsman (died 1959)
28 March – Silyn Roberts, Socialist and pacifist writer (died 1930)
1 April - Dai St. John, heavyweight boxer (died 1899)
6 April – Prince Alexander John of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1871)
12 April – Ellis William Davies, politician (died 1939)
15 April – John Humphreys Davies, writer (died 1926)
11 May – George Howells, academic and writer (died 1955)
6 June – Evan Lloyd, Wales international rugby player (died 1951)
14 June – David Nicholl, rugby player (died 1918)
July - Owen Jones, footballer (died 1955)
2 July – Sir Evan Williams, 1st Baronet, industrialist (died 1959)
3 July – W. H. Davies, poet (died 1940)
13 August – Jack Elliott, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
21 September – Alfred Brice, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
1 October – Sir Lewis Lougher, industrialist and politician (died 1955)
10 October – Thomas Gwynn Jones, poet (died 1949)
3 November – Owen Badger, Wales national rugby player (died 1939)
27 November – Robert Evans (Cybi), writer (died 1956)
1 December – Bert Dauncey, Wales international rugby player (died 1955)
3 December – Sir Percy Emerson Watkins, civil servant (died 1946)
date unknown
- William Jenkins, politician (died 1944)
- Howard Passadoro, footballer (died 1921)
- Thomas Mardy Rees, historian and author (died 1953)

Deaths

19 January – Thomas Jeremy Griffiths, minister, hymn-writer and teacher
30 January – Edward Howell, US politician of Welsh descent, 78
February – Robert Roberts, musician, 30^[5]
23 July – Arthur James Johnes, judge, 62^[6]
2 August – David James (Dewi o Ddyfed), writer (born 1803)
6 October – Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 59^[7]

References

^ Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1897. p. 593.
^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^ Reference Wales. University of Wales Press. 1994. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-7083-1234-6.
^ Stephen J. Lavender (1981). New Land for Old: The Environmental Renaissance of the Lower Swansea Valley. A. Hilger. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-85274-386-7.
^ Robert David Griffith. "Roberts, Robert (1840-1871), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 March 2019.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thomas, Daniel Lleufer (1892). "Johnes, Arthur James". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
^ Edmund Burke (1872). The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year. Longmans, Green. p. 161.

[1] Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1897. p. 593.

[Pocket_On_This_Day-2] Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.

[3] Reference Wales. University of Wales Press. 1994. p. 278. ISBN 978-0-7083-1234-6.

[4] Stephen J. Lavender (1981). New Land for Old: The Environmental Renaissance of the Lower Swansea Valley. A. Hilger. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-85274-386-7.

[5] Robert David Griffith. "Roberts, Robert (1840-1871), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 March 2019.

[6] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Thomas, Daniel Lleufer (1892). "Johnes, Arthur James". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 30. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

[7] Edmund Burke (1872). The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year. Longmans, Green. p. 161.

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