1857 in Wales

1857 in Wales
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1857 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1857

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

6 May — Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails for Tennessee.
1 June — Opening of the Crumlin Viaduct, built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway.
14 October — Four people are killed in a railway accident near Pyle.
Railway workers go on strike at Aberdare.
Thomas Gee launches the periodical Baner Cymru.
The Newport Gazette is founded by William Nicholas Johns.
William Owen Stanley becomes MP for Anglesey Boroughs.
John Bowen becomes Bishop of Sierra Leone.

2 February - Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician and ship-owner (died 1933)
7 February — Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952)
28 February — Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain (died 1922)
27 April — Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player (died 1933)
12 May — Sarah Jacob, the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
20 June — Dan Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
28 June — Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
1 July — Martha Hughes Cannon, women's rights activist and politician in the USA (died 1932)
19 September — James Bridie was a Scottish-born rugby player who represented the Welsh international rugby team.
8 November — Frank Purdon, Wales rugby union international
14 November — John Thomas Rees, musician (died 1949)
2 December — Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, surgeon (died 1943)