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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1860 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales — vacant
Events
- 27 February — A paddle steamer, Nimrod, is wrecked off St David's Head, and 45 people are killed.
- 7 March — HMS Howe, the Royal Navy’s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line, is launched at Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.
- 3 August — Consecration of Marble Church, Bodelwyddan.
- 1 December — The sixth underground explosion in the Risca Black Vein Pit at Crosskeys in the Sirhowy Valley of Monmouthshire kills 142 coal miners.[1][2]
- Opening of the Gwili Valley railway.
- A statue of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey is added to the column built in his honour by Thomas Harrison earlier in the century.
- Four gun batteries are installed on Flat Holm.
- Discovery of Gwynfynydd Gold Mine gold mine at Dolgellau.
- Founding of the Hafod Copperworks.
- Big Pit at Blaenavon opened.
- Mosque founded in Cardiff Bay by Sheikh Abdullah Hakimi.
- Excavation of Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles.
- approx. date — Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey adopts the long form of its name.
Arts and literature
Awards
- At the Denbigh eisteddfod, a decision is made to launch a national eisteddfod.
- An eisteddfod is held at Utica, New York.
New books
- John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Hwyr
- Thomas Phillips — The Welsh Revival: Its Origin and Development
- William Rowlands — Dammeg y Mab Afradlon
Music
- John Owen (Owain Alaw) — Gems of Welsh Melody (including the first Welsh lyric for March of the Men of Harlech, written by John Jones (Talhaiarn))
Sport
- The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.
- Oswestry Town F.C. is founded.
Births
- 21 February – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor (died 1952)
- 25 March – Jack Powell, footballer (died 1947
- 29 March – Edward Peake, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
- 14 April – Howell Elvet Lewis (Elved), poet and archdruid (died 1953)
- 19 April – William Penfro Rowlands, composer (died 1937)
- 12 May – Sir John Ballinger, librarian (died 1933)
- 24 May – Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, lawyer and politician (died 1926)
- 6 June – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet (died 1944)
- 30 July – Richard Summers, Wales rugby union international (died 1941)
- 6 September – George Florance Irby, 6th Baron Boston, landowner and scientist (died 1941)
- 25 September – Thomas Francis Roberts, academic (died 1919)
- 31 December – Horace Lyne, Wales international rugby player and WRU president (died 1949)
- date unknown
- James Colton, anarchist (died 1936)
- Sir William Price (died 1938)
Deaths
- 4 May – William Ormsby-Gore, politician, 81
- 17 July – Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse, 71
- 13 November - David Dale Owen, geologist in the USA, 53
References
- ↑ Jukes, Tony. "The development of Risca". Risca Industrial History Museum & OHIHS. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
- ↑ "Risca Colliery". CoalHouse. BBC. 2008. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
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