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]
- 12 April — The Swansea Improvements and Tramway Company begins to operate horse trams.
- 11 September — In a mining accident at the Prince of Wales Colliery, Abercarn, 268 men are killed.
- Founding of Dr Williams' School for Girls at Dolgellau.
- 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.[2]
- 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 (died 1917)
- 12 March — Mary Sophia Allen, women's rights activist (died 1964)
- 15 March — Thomas Richards, historian and librarian (died 1962)
- 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)
- 20 June — Seymour J. Farmer, politician in Canada (died 1951)
- 28 June — Evan Roberts, preacher (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)
- 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
- 25 February — Townsend Harris, Welsh-descended American diplomat, 73
- 30 March — Peter Maurice, priest and writer, 74
- 4 July — William Roos, Welsh artist and engraver, 70
- 13 August — Francis Rice, 5th Baron Dynevor, 74
- 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
- 25 November — Llewelyn Lewellin, clergyman and academic, 80
- 11 December — William Thomas (Gwilym Marles), poet, 44
- 13 December — David Charles, secretary of the University for Wales movement, 56
References
- ↑ Davies, William Llewelyn (2009). "Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
- ↑ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
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