1871 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1871 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales — The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Princess of Wales — Alexandra of Denmark
Events
- 24 February — In a mining accident at Pentre Colliery, Rhondda, 38 men are killed.
- 21 March — Welsh-born journalist Henry Morton Stanley sets out for Africa to seek missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone.
- June — Miners' strike in South Wales culminates in defeat for the union.
- 10 November — Stanley locates Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika,[1] and allegedly greets him saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
- Lewis Jones is appointed governor of Chubut Province by the government of Argentina.
- David Davies Llandinam constructs a railway from Caersws to the Van lead mines.
- Henry Hussey Vivian opens the White Rock lead treatment works in Swansea.
Arts and literature
Awards
- Evan Jones (Gurnos) wins a bardic chair at Ystradyfodwg.
New books
- W. R. Ambrose — Hynafiaethau, Cofiannau a Hanes Presennol Nant Nantlle, y Traethawd Buddugol yn Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Pen-y-groes
- Robert Fowler, MD — A Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl
- James Kenward — Ab Ithel
Music
- John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) is appointed harpist to Queen Victoria.
Sport
- Rugby union — Neath RFC is founded.
Births
- 5 January — Percy Lloyd, Wales national rugby player (died 1959)
- 23 February — Jack Evans, Wales national rugby player (died 1924)
- 2 March — Billy Bancroft, sportsman (died 1959)
- 28 March — Silyn Roberts, Socialist and pacifist writer (died 1930)
- 1 April - Dai St. John, heavyweight boxer (died 1899)
- 6 April — Prince Alexander John of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1871)
- 12 April — Ellis William Davies, politician (died 1939)
- 15 April — John Humphreys Davies, writer (died 1926)
- 11 May — George Howells, academic and writer (died 1955)
- 6 June — Evan Lloyd, Wales international rugby player (died 1951)
- 14 June — David Nicholl, rugby player (died 1918)
- July - Owen Jones, footballer (died 1955)
- 2 July — Sir Evan Williams, 1st Baronet, industrialist (died 1959)
- 3 July — W. H. Davies, poet (died 1940)
- 13 August — Jack Elliott, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
- 21 September — Alfred Brice, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
- 1 October — Sir Lewis Lougher, industrialist and politician (died 1955)
- 10 October — Thomas Gwynn Jones, poet (died 1949)
- 3 November — Owen Badger, Wales national rugby player (died 1939)
- 27 November — Robert Evans (Cybi), writer (died 1956)
- 1 December — Bert Dauncey, Wales international rugby player (died 1955)
- 3 December — Sir Percy Emerson Watkins, civil servant (died 1946)
- date unknown
- William Jenkins, politician (died 1944)
- Howard Passadoro, footballer (died 1921)
- Thomas Mardy Rees, historian and author (died 1953)
Deaths
- 19 January — Thomas Jeremy Griffiths, minister, hymn-writer and teacher
- 30 January — Edward Howell, US politician of Welsh descent, 78
- 2 August — David James (Dewi o Ddyfed), writer (born 1803)
- 6 October — Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 59