Английская Википедия:1870 in Wales

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Шаблон:Use Welsh English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1870 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite

• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short (retired); Joshua Hughes (from 9 May)
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

Events

• January — Francis Kilvert begins his famous diary.
• 10 February — In a mining accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 30 men are killed.
• Sir George Gilbert Scott completes the restoration of Bangor Cathedral.
• George Osborne Morgan introduces the Burials Bill and the Places of Worship (Acquisition of Land) Bill to Parliament.
• Timothy Richards Lewis discovers a nematoid worm, later Filaria sanguinis hominis.
• William Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, begins acquiring the collieries later known as the Lewis Merthyr collieries in Rhondda.
• Jacob Lloyd is created a Knight of the Order of S. Gregory by Pope Pius IX.
• Thomas William Rhys Davids begins a series of articles for the Ceylon branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Journal.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Haf
• David Lloyd Davies — Ceinwen Morgan neu y Rian Ddiwylliedig
• Richard Davies (Mynyddog) — Yr Ail Gynnig

Sport

• Billiards — John Roberts, Sr. loses the English billiards championship after 21 years.
• Association football — Druids of Rhiwabon formed.

Births

• 13 January — Conway Rees, rugby player (died 1932)
• 20 March — Eluned Morgan, author (died 1938)
• 25 March — Wallace Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1950)
• 19 June — Charles Nicholl, Wales international rugby union player (died 1939)
• 29 June
  • Arthur Boucher, Wales international rugby union player (died 1948)
  • Sir Charles Dillwyn-Venables-Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, politician (died 1951)
• 27 July — Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan, historian (died 1948)
• 18 August — William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician and Wales international rugby player (died 1946)
• 27 September — Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955)
• 3 November — Norman Biggs, Wales international rugby player (died 1908)
• 15 November — William Elsey, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
• 20 December — Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958)Шаблон:Cn
• 29 December — Robert Dewi Williams, teacher, minister and writer (died 1955)
• 31 December — David John Jones, Dean of Llandaff (died 1949)
• date unknown — John Hughes Morris, missionary (died 1953)

Deaths

• 16 March — Thomas Parry, Bishop of Barbados, 74
• 4 April — Owen Wynne Jones, writer, 42
• 15 May — Charles Hinde (army officer), soldier, 49
• 23 June — Isaac Hughes, Calvinist missionary and preacher, 71/72
• 27 May — John Etherington Welch Rolls, Monmouthshire landowner and father of 1st Baron Llangattock, 63
• 1 August — Levi Gibbon, balladeer, 92
• 17 September — Joseph David Jones, composer, 43
• 16 November — Harry Longueville Jones, antiquary, 64

See also

• 1870 in Ireland