1867 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people.Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – Alexandra
Events
- 3 June – The opening of the Anglesey Central Railway to passenger traffic links Amlwch to the rail network for the first time.
- 19 August – The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public.
- 2 September – The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.
- 10 October – Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary opens to rail traffic, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.
- 27 October – A sailing ship, the Earl of Chester, is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of 14 lives.
- 8 November – 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
- date unknown
- *John Graham Chambers revises the Marquess of Queensberry rules for boxing.
- *Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
- *The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.
Arts and literature
Awards
- At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.
New books
- Rhoda Broughton – Cometh Up as a Flower
- Edward Hamer – The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes
- Jabez Edmund Jenkins – Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau
- Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan - Penhow Castle
- William Thomas – Caniadau
- Alfred Russel Wallace – The Malay Archipelago
- Charles Wilkins – The History of Merthyr Tydfil
Music
- David Roberts – Llyfr y Psalmau
Sport
- Boxing – The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published.
Births
- 10 March
- *Sir William James Thomas, Baronet, philanthropist
- *William Llewelyn Williams, politician
- *10 April – Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, peer
- 2 May – Eliseus Williams, poet
- 13 May – Frank Brangwyn, artist
- 15 May – Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic
- 21 May – John Thomas Job, poet
- 26 May – Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901–1910
- 29 September – John Richard Williams, poet
- 6 October – Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player
- 12 October – Lyn Harding, actor
- 2 November – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer
- 28 November – James Richard Atkin, judge
- 18 December – David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East
- date unknown
- *Mia Arnesby Brown, born Mia Sarah H. Edwards, painter of children's portraits
- *Fred Hutchinson, rugby player
Deaths
- 15 February – Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82
- 18 February – Edward Roberts, poet, 48
- 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64
- 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79
- 12 September – Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67
- 16 November – Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59
- 1 December – William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74