1860 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1860 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
- February 27 - A paddle steamer, Nimrod, is wrecked off St David's Head, and 45 people are killed.
- 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 the Gwynfynydd gold mine at Dolgellau.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Awards
- At the Denbigh eisteddfod, a decision is made to launch a national eisteddfod.
- An eisteddfod is held at Utica, New York.
[edit] New books
- John Ceiriog Hughes - Oriau'r Hwyr
- Thomas Phillips - The Welsh Revival: Its Origin and Development
- William Rowlands - Dammeg y Mab Afradlon
[edit] 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))
[edit] Sport
- 1860 - The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.
[edit] Births
- February 21 - Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor (died 1952)
- April 14 - Howell Elvet Lewis (Elved), poet and archdruid (died 1953)
- May 12 - Sir John Ballinger, librarian (died 1933)
- May 24 - Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, lawyer and politician (died 1926)
- September 6 - George Florance Irby, 6th Baron Boston, landowner and scientist (died 1941)
- date unknown
- James Colton, anarchist (died 1936)
- Sir William Price (died 1938)
[edit] Deaths
- May 4 - William Ormsby-Gore, politician, 81
- July 17 - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse, 71
