1880 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1880 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
Beriah Gwynfe Evans' Owain Glyndwr, one of the first full-length plays in the Welsh language, is first performed at Llanberis.
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Caernarfon (first "official" National Eisteddfod)
New books
Music
Sport
Births
- 31 January — Phil Hopkins, Wales international rugby player (died 1966)
- 12 February — William Joseph Rhys, writer (died 1967)
- 17 March — Harry Grindell Matthews, inventor (died 1941)
- 8 April — Thomas Thomas, boxing champion (died 1911)
- 19 April — Jack Jenkins, Wales international rugby player (died 1971)
- 30 April — George Maitland Lloyd Davies, pacifist (died 1949)
- 9 May — Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, patron of the arts (died 1946)
- 11 May — David Davies, 1st Baron Davies, politician (died 1944)
- 22 May
- Dr Teddy Morgan, Wales international rugby player (died 1947)
- Robert John Rowlands ('Meuryn'), journalist and poet (died 1967)
- 31 May — Edward Tegla Davies, author (died 1967)
- 22 June — Rhys Gabe, rugby player (died 1967)
- 2 September — Isaac Daniel Hooson, poet (died 1948)
- 15 September — William Charles Williams, VC recipient (died 1915)
- 20 September — Ernie Jenkins, Wales international rugby player (died 1958)
Deaths
- 6 January — John Thomas ('Minimus'), minister and author, 71
- 2 March — Charles Meredith, Tasmanian politician, 68
- 23 April — Robert Thomas ('Ap Vychan'), minister and writer, 70
- 10 May — David Charles II, hymn-writer, 76?
- 30 August — Mordecai Jones, industrialist, 67
- date unknown — Thomas Joseph Brown, Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1796)