1858 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1858 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1858 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales — The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Princess of Wales — vacant

Events

• January
  • Teaching begins at Bangor Normal College, founded by Hugh Owen.
  • End of Aberdare Strike 1857-8 in the coal mining industry.
• 20 April — John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is given a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.
• June - Erection of the Town Clock at Tredegar.
• 20 June - End of the Indian Mutiny, which Major General Charles Hinde plays a major role in suppressing.
• 29 August — Musician Robert Davies (Asaph Llechid) is killed by a rockfall while at work in Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry.
• 5 October - The Vale of Clwyd Railway, built by David Davies Llandinam, is opened.^[1]
• 13 October — 20 men are killed in a mining accident at Lower Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.

Arts and literature

Awards

• "Great Eisteddfod" at Llangollen; early appearance of Gorsedd ceremony. Ebenezer Thomas (Eben Fardd) wins first prize for his poem Maes Bosworth.

New books

• William Davies (Gwilym Teilo) — Llandilo-Vawr and its Neighbourhood
• Owen Wynne Jones — Lleucu Llwyd
• Robert Owen - An Introduction to the Study of Dogmatic Theology
• L. M. Spooner — Gladys of Harlech
• Alfred Russel Wallace — On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type

Music

• Thomas Gruffydd Jones (Tafalaw Bencerdd) — Y Drysorfa Gorawl
• Edward Stephen (Tanymarian) — Requiem

Births

• 6 January — Ben Davies, singer (died 1943)
• 28 January — Edgeworth David, explorer (died 1934)
• 9 April — Aneurin Rees, Wales rugby union international (died 1932)
• 15 May — B. B. Mann, Wales rugby union international (died 1948)
• 8 October — Robert Owen Hughes (Elfyn), journalist and poet (died 1919)
• 25 October — Tom Clapp, Wales rugby union captain
• 30 October - Alfred Onions, politician (died 1921)
• 18 December — Sir Owen Thomas, soldier and politician
• 25 December — Frederick Margrave, rugby player (died 1946)
• 26 December — Sir Owen Morgan Edwards, academic and author (died 1920)
• 27 December — Sir John Herbert Lewis, lawyer and politician (died 1933)
• 28 December — Josiah Towyn Jones, politician (died 1925)

Deaths

• 13 May — Lewis Loyd, banker, 91
• 4 July — Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch), lexicographer, 78
• 16 October — Charles Norris, artist, 79
• 17 November — Robert Owen, founder of the Co-operative Society, 87
• 20 November — Sir Joseph Bailey, 1st Baronet, ironmaster, 75
• 18 December — John Salusbury Piozzi Salusbury, nephew of Hester Thrale, 65

References