1870s in Wales

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Other events of the decade

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1870–1879 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales — Alexandra
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales — Clwydfardd (from 1876)

Events

• 1870
• 1871
• 1872
• 1873
• 1874
• 1875
• 1876
• 1877
• 1878
• 1879

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales — no National Eisteddfod officially took place during this decade. 1872 — William Thomas (Islwyn) wins a bardic chair at Rhyl. 1874 — Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Caerphilly. 1877 — Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert.

New books

• R. D. Blackmore — The Maid of Sker (1872)
• Rhoda Broughton — Nancy (1873)
• Richard Davies (Mynyddog)
  • Yr Ail Gynnig (1870)
  • Y Trydydd Cynnig (1877)
• Robert Elis (Cynddelw) — Manion Hynafiaethol (1873)
• Beriah Gwynfe Evans — Owain Glyndwr (play) (1879)
• Daniel Silvan Evans — Celtic Remains (1878)
• John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Haf (1870)
• William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog)
  • Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr (1877)
  • Llythyrau 'Rhen Ffarmwr (1878)
• Thomas Thomas (minister) — Hynodion Hen Bregethwyr Cymru (1872)

Music

• 1873
  • Henry Brinley Richards — Songs of Wales

Sport

• 1873 — Major Walter Wingfield of Nantclwyd Hall patents nets for the game of lawn tennis, which he calls "sphairistike".

Births

• 1870
  • 18 August — William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician (died 1946)
  • 27 September — Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955)
  • 20 December — Sir Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958)
• 1871
  • 6 April — Prince Alexander John of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 7 April 1871)
• 1872
  • 18 May — Bertrand Russell, philosopher (died 1970)
  • 27 August — Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator (died 1910)
  • 8 October — John Cowper Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer (died 1963)
• 1873
  • 23 April — Sir Robert Thomas, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1951)
  • 2 June — Anna Eliza Williams, supercentenarian (died 1987)
• 1874
  • 6 February — David Evans, composer (died 1948)
  • 3 October — James Henry Thomas, politician (died 1949)
  • December — Nantlais Williams, poet and religious leader (died 1959)
  • date unknown — Albert Bethel, politician (died 1935)
• 1875
  • 10 September — John Evans, Welsh politician (died 1961)
  • 11 November — Johnny Jenkins, racing driver (died 1945)
• 1876
  • 22 June — Gwen John, artist (died 1939)
  • 18 September — Charles Kemeys-Tynte, 8th Baron Wharton (died 1934)
• 1877
  • 19 August — John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
  • 26 September — Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales, but birth certificate proves otherwise)
• 1878
  • 4 January — Augustus John, painter (died 1961)
  • 3 March — Edward Thomas, poet (died 1917)
  • 16 April — Owen Thomas Jones, geologist (died 1967)
  • 26 May — Abel J. Jones, writer (died 1949)
  • 28 June — Evan Roberts preacher (died 1951)
  • 31 December — Caradoc Evans, writer (died 1945)
• 1879
  • 4 September — Eliot Crawshay-Williams, politician and writer (died 1962)
  • 2 October — Idris Bell, papyrologist (died 1967)

Deaths

• 1872
  • 3 August — William Davies Evans, chess player (born 1790)
• 1874
  • 19 April — Owen Jones, architect (born 1809)
• 1875
  • 27 July — Connop Thirlwall, bishop (born 1797)
• 1876
  • 19 July — George E. Pugh, Welsh-American politician (born 1822)
• 1877
  • 24 June — Robert Dale Owen, Welsh-American politician (born 1801)
  • 14 July — Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet (born 1833)
  • 5 August — Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (born 1830)
• 1878
  • 3 January — Morris Williams (Nicander), writer (born 1809)
  • 30 September — Evan James, poet, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem (born 1809)
  • 20 November — William Thomas (Islwyn), poet (born 1832)
• 1879
  • 23 September — Francis Kilvert, diarist (born 1840)