1870 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1870 to Wales and its people.

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January - Francis Kilvert begins his famous diary.
February 10 - In a mining accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 30 men are killed.
Sir George Gilbert Scott completes the restoration of Bangor Cathedral.
The Druids of Rhiwabon are formed, the first football club in Wales.
George Osborne Morgan introduces the Burials Bill and the Places of Worship (Acquisition of Land) Bill to Parliament.
Timothy Richards Lewis discovers a nematoid worm, later Filaria sanguinis hominis.
William Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, begins acquiring the collieries later known as the Lewis Merthyr collieries in Rhondda.
Jacob Lloyd is created a Knight of the Order of S. Gregory by Pope Pius IX.
Thomas William Rhys Davids begins a series of articles for the Ceylon branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Journal.

Billiards - John Roberts loses the English billiards championship after 21 years.

January 13 - John Conway Rees, rugby player (died 1932)
March 1 - Ivor Llewelyn Foster, singer (died 1959)
July 27 - Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan, historian (died 1948)
August 18 - William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician (died 1946)
September 1 - Robert Roberts (Bob Tai'r Felin), folk singer (died 1951)
September 27 - Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955)
December 20 - Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958)
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- Eluned Morgan, author
- John Hughes Morris, missionary (died 1953)
- John Henry Williams, Welsh politician (died 1936)