1875 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1875 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

August - First publication of The Usk Gleaner and Monmouthshire Record.
December - South Wales miners, led by William Abraham, come to agreement on a sliding scale of wages in relation to prices and profits.
4 December - In a mining accident at Old Pit, New Tredegar, 22 men are killed.
5 December - In a mining accident at Llan Colliery, Pentyrch, twelve men are killed.
The first imports of North American wheat come through Cardiff.
The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service recognises Welsh as a distinct nationality - the first official body ever to do so.
Ordnance Survey publishes the first complete maps of Wales.
David Davies Llandinam is elected treasurer of the University of Wales.
Major eisteddfod held at Pwllheli. Future archdruid Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) is a leading adjudicator.
Francis Wallace Grenfell takes part in the expedition which claims Griqualand West (site of the Kimberley diamond fields) for the UK.
Bodnant Garden is begun by Baron Aberconway.

Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot buys James Milo Griffith's Summer Flowers for Margam Castle.

William Ambrose - Gweithiau y Parch. W. Ambrose (posthumously published)
David Stephen Davies - Adroddiad
Isaac Foulkes - Y Ddau Efell, neu Llanllonydd
Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn) (ed.) - Cymru, yn Hanesyddol, Parthedegol, a Bywgraphyddol
John Goronwy Mathias - Y Dywysen Aeddfed
Hugh Owen Thomas - Diseases of the Hip, Knee, and Ankle Joints