1878 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1878 to Wales and its people.

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September 11 - In a mining accident at the Prince of Wales Colliery, Abercarn, 268 men are killed.
The open-hearth method of making steel is developed at Blaenavon by Percy Gilchrist and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas.
Founding of Dr Williams' School for Girls at Dolgellau.
Opening of Marine Drive around the Great Orme at Llandudno.
A passenger ferry service is established between Bangor and Porthaethwy on the Menai Strait.
Industrialist John Corbett buys Ynysymaengwyn.

Football - The Welsh Cup competition takes place for the first time, and is won by Wrexham.

January 4 - Augustus John, painter (died 1961)
March 3 - Edward Thomas, poet (died 1917)
April 16 - Owen Thomas Jones, geologist (died 1967)
May 26 - Abel J. Jones, writer (died 1949)
June 28 - Evan Roberts, preacher (died 1951)
July 1 - Billy Trew, rugby player and Welsh Triple Crown winning captain (died 1926)
November 8 - Dorothea Bate, palaeontologist (died 1951)
December 31 - Caradoc Evans, writer (died 1945)
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- Thomas Richards, historian (died 1962)
- Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan), writer (died 1919)