1871 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1871 to Wales and its people.

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February 24 - In a mining accident at Pentre Colliery, Rhondda, 38 men are killed.
March 21 - Henry Morton Stanley sets out for Africa to seek David Livingstone.
June - Miners' strike in South Wales culminates in defeat for the union.
November 10 - Stanley locates Livingstone in Tanzania, greeting him with the words, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
Lewis Jones is appointed governor of Chubut Province by the government of Argentina.
David Davies Llandinam constructs a railway from Caersws to the Van mines.
Henry Hussey Vivian opens the White Rock lead treatment works in Swansea.

March 2 - William John Bancroft, sportsman (died 1959)
March 28 - Silyn Roberts, Socialist and pacifist writer (died 1930)
April 6 - Prince Alexander John of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died April 7, 1871)
April 12 - Ellis William Davies, politician (died 1939)
April 15 - John Humphreys Davies, writer (died 1926)
July 3 - W. H. Davies, poet (died 1940)
October 1 - Sir Lewis Lougher, industrialist and politician (died 1955)
October 10 - Thomas Gwynn Jones, poet (died 1949)
November 27 - Robert Evans (Cybi), writer (died 1956)
December 3 - Sir Percy Emerson Watkins, civil servant (died 1946)
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- William Jenkins, politician (died 1944)
- Thomas Mardy Rees, historian and author (died 1953)