1857 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 to Wales and its people.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Princess of Wales - vacant
[edit] Events
- May 6 - Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails for Tennessee.
- October 14 - Four people are killed in a railway accident near Pyle.
- Opening of the Crumlin viaduct, built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway.
- Thomas Gee launches the periodical Baner Cymru.
- John Bowen becomes Bishop of Sierra Leone.
- William Owen Stanley becomes MP for Anglesey Boroughs.
- The Newport Gazette is founded by William Nicholas Johns.
- Railway workers go on strike at Aberdare.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Awards
[edit] New books
- Owen Wynne Jones - Dafydd Llwyd
- Richard Williams Morgan - The British Kymry or Britons of Cambria
- Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) - Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri
[edit] Music
- John Ashton - "Trefeglwys" (hymn tune)
[edit] Births
- February 7 - Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952)
- May 12 - Sarah Jacob, the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
- June 28 - Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
- July 1 - Martha Hughes Cannon, women's rights activist and politician in the USA (died 1932)
- November 14 - John Thomas Rees, musician (died 1949)
- December 2 - Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, surgeon (died 1943)
[edit] Deaths
- February 10 - David Thompson, explorer of Welsh parentage, 86
- March 29 - Elijah Waring, writer, 69?
- May 16 - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer, 74
- August 12 - William Daniel Conybeare, dean of Llandaff, 70
- August 16 - John Jones (Talysarn), leading non-conformist minister, 61
