1877 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1877 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – Alexandra
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd[1]
Events
- 8 March – In a mining accident at Worcester Colliery, Swansea, seventeen men are killed.[2]
- 11 April – In a mining accident at Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda, five men are killed by flooding.[3] Twenty-five of the rescue team are awarded the Albert Medal for bravery.
- 10 July – Consecration of new Merthyr Synagogue, the oldest surviving synagogue building in Wales.
- 1 August – Opening of new Llandudno Pier.[4]
- 15 August – Opening to passengers of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways from Dinas to Tryfan Junction and Bryngwyn.[5]
- 30 November – Opening of the new market hall at Builth Wells by Sir Joseph Bailey M.P.
- Opening of Stepaside, Pembrokeshire village school (part of modern-day Stepaside Heritage Park).
- Closure of lead mine at Loggerheads, Denbighshire.
Arts and literature
- Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert.
New books
- Richard Davies (Mynyddog) – Y Trydydd Cynnig[6]
- William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr
Music
- Joseph Parry resigns from his position as Professor of Music at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Sport
- Football
- The Racecourse Ground at Wrexham hosts Wales' first ever home international match, making it the world's oldest international football stadium still to host international matches.[7]
- The Welsh Cup is inaugurated.
- Rugby union
- 8 November – Blaenavon RFC play their first game, against Abergavenny.
Births
- 2 May – Sid Bevan, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1933)
- 6 June (in Guernsey) – Herbert John Fleure, zoologist and geographer (died 1969)
- 9 June – George Travers, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
- 21 June – Elizabeth Mary Jones (Moelona), Welsh-language children's novelist (died 1953)
- 1 July – Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player (died 1957)
- 19 August – John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
- 17 September – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (died 1928)[8]
- 26 September (in Wandsworth) – Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales)
- 5 October – Lily Gower, croquet player (died 1959)
- 27 October – David Harris Davies, Wales international rugby union player (died 1944)
- 7 November – Maurice Parry, footballer (died 1935)
- 27 November – Leigh Richmond Roose, football goalkeeper (killed in battle 1916)
- 2 December – John Strand-Jones, Wales international rugby union player (died 1958)
Deaths
- 9 January – Thomas Thomas, clergyman, 72
- 24 June – Robert Dale Owen, Welsh-American politician, 75[9]
- 14 July – Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet, 44[10]
- 18 July – Thomas Richards, "father of Tasmanian journalism", 77
- 27 July – John Frost, Chartist leader, 93[11]
- 5 August – Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet, 47[12]
- 17 October – Charles Williams, academic, 73?
- 7 November – Calvert Jones, painter and pioneer photographer, 72[13]
- 13 December – John Griffith (journalist), journalist who wrote under the pseudonym Y Gohebydd, 56[14]
References
- ^ Daniel Williams. "GRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
- ^ United States Congressional Serial Set. U.S. Government Printing Office. 1897. p. 593.
- ^ Ceri Thompson. "The Tynewydd Mining Disaster". Museum of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
- ^ Frank Crossley Thornley (1952). Steamers of North Wales, past and present. T. Stephenson. p. 66.
- ^ Donald J. Grant (31 October 2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 419. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
- ^ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 136.
- ^ "Guinness cheers Racecourse with official record". Daily Post North Wales. 18 June 2008. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 18 June 2008.
- ^ Mary Auronwy James. "Berry (family), (Lords Buckland, Camrose and Kemsley,) industrialists and newspaper proprietors". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
- ^ "Owen, Robert Dale (1801–1877)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. U.S. Congress. Retrieved 12 September 2017.
- ^ Montgomery-shire Collections. Powys-land Club. 1877. p. 2.
- ^ The Annual summary, by J. Mason. 1877. p. 276.
- ^ Iwan Meical Jones. "Williams, Robert (Trebor Mai; 1830–1877), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
- ^ Iwan Meical Jones. "Jones, Calvert Richard (1802–1877), pioneer photographer, artist and priest". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2019.
- ^ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel; Menna, Baines; Lynch, Peredur I.; et al., eds. (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.