1867 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

July - First appearance of Yr Awstralydd, a Welsh-language journal published in Australia and edited by William Meirion Evans and Theophilus Williams.
October 27 - A sailing ship, the Earl of Chester, is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of 14 lives.
November 8 - 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
John Graham Chambers revises the Marquess of Queensberry rules.
Celtic Congress held at Brieuc in Brittany.
The Mawddach rail bridge opens and Barmouth is linked to the rail network for the first time.
Amlwch is linked to the rail network for the first time.
Railway lines open between Caernarfon and Porthmadog and between Prestatyn and Dyserth.
The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.
Rhyl pier is built, at a cost of £23,000.

At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.

March 10
- Sir William James Thomas, Baronet, philanthropist (d. 1945)
- William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922)
May 2 - Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926)
May 13 - Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)
May 15 - Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
May 21 - John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)
May 26 - Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (d. 1953)
September 29 - John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)
November 2 - Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899)
November 28 - James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944)