1869 in Wales

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1868 | 1870 | Other years in Wales
1869 in the United Kingdom
1869 in Ireland
Other events of 1869

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1869 to Wales and its people.

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[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Events

  • January
  • May - The Western Mail is published for the first time.
  • May 19 - Two days after John Young, the English manager of the nearby Leeswood Green colliery, announces a pay cut, he is attacked by some of his workers.
  • June 2 - Seven men are tried at Mold for attacking John Young. A riot breaks out as those convicted are being transported to the railway station; soldiers fire on the crowd, killing four people.
  • June 10 - Three people are killed in a derailment at Maesycymmer in Glamorgan.
  • October 30 - The first edition of the Welsh-language periodical, Y Goleuad, is published.
  • Anti-Irish riots at Pontlottyn in the Rhymney Valley result in one death.
  • John Hughes of Merthyr Tydfil buys land near the Sea of Azov, where he develops an ironworks and founds the city of Yuzovka (later Donetsk).
  • Construction of the fort at St Catherine's Island, off Tenby.
  • Prehistoric burial remains are discovered at Parc le Breos on the Gower peninsula.
  • Rail link is built from Greenfield to Holywell.
  • Emmeline Lewis Lloyd attempts an ascent of the Matterhorn.
  • John Owen of Tyn-llwyn is evicted from his farm for voting Tory.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] Awards

[edit] New books

[edit] Music

  • Owen Jones - Hymnau Hen a Diweddar (collection of hymns)

[edit] Sport

[edit] Births

[edit] Deaths