1875 in Wales

1875 in Wales
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1875 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1875

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

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.

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
Evan Rees (Dyfed) - Caniadau Dyfedfab
Hugh Owen Thomas - Diseases of the Hip, Knee, and Ankle Joints

3 January - Cliff Bowen, Wales international rugby player and county cricketer (died 1929)
4 January – William Williams (Crwys), poet and Archdruid (died 1968)
19 January – Thomas Owen Jones, dramatist, actor and producer (died 1941)
23 February – David Brazell, singer (died 1959)
23 May - Nathaniel Walters, Wales international rugby player (died 1956)
26 May

- Jack Evans Wales international rugby player (died 1947)

31 May - Dan Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1959)
11 June - Will Osborne, Wales international rugby player
10 September
- John Evans, Welsh politician (died 1961)
- Harry Vaughan Watkins, Wales international rugby player (died 1945)
26 October – Sir Lewis Casson, artist (died 1969)
11 November – Johnny Jenkins, racing driver (died 1945)
20 December (in Shirley, Derbyshire) – T. F. Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1953)
25 December – George Davies, international rugby player (died 1959)