1870 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1870 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
New books
Music
- John Ambrose Lloyd — Aberth Moliant
Sport
Births
- 13 January — Conway Rees, rugby player (died 1932)
- 11 March — Ivor Llewelyn Foster, singer (died 1959)
- 20 March — Eluned Morgan, author
- 25 March — Wallace Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1950)
- 19 June — Charles Nicholl, Wales international rugby union player (died 1939)
- 29 June
- 27 July — Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan, historian (died 1948)
- 18 August — William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician and Wales international rugby player (died 1946)
- 1 September — Robert Roberts (Bob Tai'r Felin), folk singer (died 1951)
- 27 September — Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955)
- 3 November — Norman Biggs, Wales international rugby player (died 1908)
- 15 November — William Elsey, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
- 20 December — Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958)
- 29 December - Robert Dewi Williams, teacher, minister and writer (died 1955)
- 31 December - David John Jones, Dean of Llandaff (died 1949)
- date unknown
Deaths
- 16 March — Thomas Parry, Bishop of Barbados, 74
- 4 April — Owen Wynne Jones, writer, 42
- 1 May — Ivor Fostor, singer, 58
- 15 May — Charles Hinde, soldier, 49
- 21 June — Thomas Evan James (Thomas ap Ieuan), minister and author, 46
- 1 August — Levi Gibbon, balladeer, 92
- 8 September — David Parry (Dewi Moelwyn), poet, 35
- 17 September — Joseph David Jones, composer, 43
- 16 November — Harry Longueville Jones, antiquary, 64