1870s in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1870–1879 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – Alexandra
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd (from 1876)
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)
- 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)
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