1857 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1857 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

4 March — Thomas Gee launches the radical nonconformist newspaper Baner Cymru in Denbigh.[1]
24 March — 1857 United Kingdom general election, concludes. Anglesey antiquarian William Owen Stanley becomes Whig MP for the Beaumaris District of Boroughs.[2]
6 May — Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails for Tennessee.
1 June — Opening of the Crumlin Viaduct, built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway.[3]
10 August — John Bowen is consecrated as Bishop of Sierra Leone.
13 August — Eugene Goddard crosses the Menai Strait in his gas balloon Aurora from Caernarfon Castle to Llanidan.[4]
3 October — The Newport Gazette is founded by William Nicholas Johns.
14 October — Four people are killed in a railway accident near Pyle.
29 October — St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, badly damaged by arson.
Autumn — Aberdare Strike 1857-8 against reductions in coal miners' pay begins.
Railway workers go on strike at Aberdare.

2 February - Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician and ship-owner (died 1933)
7 February — Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952)
28 February — Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain (died 1922)
27 April — Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player (died 1933)
12 May — Sarah Jacob, the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
20 June — Dan Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
28 June — Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
1 July — Martha Hughes Cannon, women's rights activist and politician in the United States (died 1932)
19 September — James Bridie, Scottish-born Wales international rugby union player (died 1893 in England)
8 November — Frank Purdon, Wales rugby union international
14 November — John Thomas Rees, musician (died 1949)
2 December — Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, surgeon (died 1943)
Llewellyn Cadwaladr, operatic tenor (died 1909)

Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (2001). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian. The Society. p. 112.
Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales. Longmans, Green, Reader. pp. 48–.
John Elliott (2004). The Industrial Development of the Ebbw Valleys, 1780-1914. University of Wales Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-7083-1890-4.
Hughes, T. Meirion (2014). "Some Feat over a Century and a Half Ago". Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time. Talybont: Y Lolfa. pp. 77–81. ISBN 978-1-847-71930-0.
Neil Evans (17 February 2016). Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950. Routledge. p. 84. ISBN 978-1-134-78661-9.
National Library of Wales (1985). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Council of the National Library of Wales.

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