1868 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1868 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

January 22 - Sixteen vessels are lost in a gale off the Burry estuary, with a total of thirty lives lost.
August 20 - 33 people die in a fire resulting from a collision between a mail train and a set of trucks at Llandulas station near Abergele, the greatest loss of life in a railway accident in Wales.
October - Work begins on Nant-y-Ffrith reservoir.
December 2 - The United Kingdom general election leaves Gladstone's Liberals the dominant party in Wales, with 21 seats.
- Among the Conservative members who lose their seats are Crawshay Bailey and Henry Austin Bruce, the latter replaced by two MPs for the expanded constituency of Merthyr Tydfil: Richard Fothergill and Henry Richard.
- Richard Davies becomes MP for Anglesey.
- Love Jones-Parry wins Caernarvonshire from Douglas Pennant.
- George Osborne Morgan is elected for the first time in Denbighshire.
- Farmers in Cardiganshire are evicted for returning a Liberal MP, Thomas Lloyd.
Norwegian Seamen's Mission opens in Cardiff.
Opening of the Bala Lake Railway.
John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, sponsors restoration work at Caerphilly Castle.
First publication of the Welsh-language periodical, Baner America, in the USA.
Y Dydd is founded, with Samuel Roberts (S. R.) as editor.
Iron Age crannog is discovered on an island in Llangorse Lake, near Brecon.

William Lewis Barrett is appointed flautist at the Italian Opera of Lutz.
Gŵyl Ardudwy music festival is founded by John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt).
Publication of Llyfr Tonau ac Emynau, edited by Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) and Joseph David Jones.

Cricket
- May - A team from Cadoxton play the United South of England (including W. G. Grace) at The Gnoll, Neath.