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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1863 to Wales and its people.
[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
- March 10 - Marriage of Edward Albert, Prince of Wales, to Alexandra of Denmark. Alexandra becomes the first Princess of Wales since 1820.
- English church services are introduced for English-speaking minorities in Welsh-speaking areas.
- Founding of the Anglesey Central Railway.
- Sir Hugh Owen becomes an honorary secretary of the London committee formed to set up the University of Wales.
- Mesac Thomas becomes the first Bishop of Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia.
- Publication of The Bards of Wales, first written in 1857 by Hungarian poet János Arany, using the story of Edward I's conquest of Wales to disguise criticism of the Austro-Hungarian empire.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Awards
[edit] New books
- Cricket
- July 23 - South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's.
- July 27 - South Wales Cricket Club defeat Gentlemen of Kent at Cranbrook.
[edit] Births
- January 17 - David Lloyd George, politician (died 1945)
- March 3 - Arthur Machen, writer (died 1947)
- May 18 - Lewis Davies (Lewis Glyn Cynon), novelist and historian (died 1951)
- May 21 - William Jones Williams, civil servant (died 1949)
- June 11 - Llewellyn Henry Gwynne, first suffragan Bishop of Khartoum (died 1957)
- June 18 - George Essex Evans, Australian poet of Welsh parentage (died 1909)
- August 8 - John Herbert Roberts, Baron Clwyd of Abergele, politician (died 1955)
- August 17 - Joseph Harry, minister, writer and teacher (died 1950)
- August 29 - Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas, magistrate (died 1940)
- October 7 - Sir William Davies, journalist (died 1935)
[edit] Deaths
- February 17 - Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd), poet, 60
- February 28 - David Williams (Alaw Goch), industrialist, 53
- March 24 - Thomas Powell, industrialist, 84
- April 13 - George Cornewall Lewis, statesman, 56
- May/June - David Bevan Jones (Dewi Elfed), Mormon leader, 55
- July 15 - Edward Pryce Owen, artist, 75
- November 8 - Joseph Hughes (Carn Ingli), poet, 60
- December 13 - Robert Saunderson, printer, 83