1872 in Wales

1872 in Wales
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1872 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1872

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1872 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

5 January — In a mining accident at Blackwood Colliery, five men are killed.
2 March — In a mining accident at Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale, nineteen men are killed.
18 June — A derailment occurred in the Pencader Tunnel on the Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway
1 August - Minffordd railway station is opened.
University of Wales, Aberystwyth, is founded, with 26 students; Thomas Charles Edwards is its first principal.
Stocks are used on the last recorded occasion in the UK, at Adpar in Cardiganshire, when a man is imprisoned in them for drunkenness.

The South Wales "Cor Mawr", conducted by Griffith R. Jones (Caradog) wins a national choral competition at Crystal Palace.

Cricket — First game played at Elwy Grove Park, St Asaph.
Football — 28 September: Wrexham Football Club is founded. They play at the Racecourse Ground.

21 February — Evan Lorimer Thomas, clergyman and academic (died 1953)
6 May — William Llewellyn Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1943)
10 May — Tom Pearson, Wales international rugby player (died 1957)
18 May — Bertrand Russell, philosopher (died 1970)
14 July — David Morgan, Wales international rugby player (died 1933)
27 August — Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator (died 1910)
14 September — Albert Jenkin, Wales international rugby player (died 1961)
8 October — John Cowper Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1963)
date unknown
- Vernon Hartshorn, politician (died 1931)
- Thomas Jeremiah Williams, lawyer and politician (died 1919)

24 March - James Williams, clergyman and philanthropist, 81
3 August — William Davies Evans, chess player, 82
22 August — Evan Davies, educationist, 84
11 November — Mary Anne Disraeli, wife of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli, 80