Incumbents

• Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
  
   - Edward
  Edward VII of the United Kingdom
  Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...
  
  , son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.
• Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
  
   - vacant

Events

• January - Y Brython changes from weekly to monthly publication.
• 1 April - Opening of the Corris Railway
  Corris Railway
  The Corris Railway is a narrow gauge preserved railway based in Corris on the border between Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire in Mid-Wales....
  
  .
• 5 April - 27 men are killed by flooding at Neath
  Neath
  Neath is a town and community situated in the principal area of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, UK with a population of approximately 45,898 in 2001...
  
   Chain Colliery.
• 29 June - Benjamin Hall
  Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover
  Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover PC , known as Sir Benjamin Hall, Bt, between 1838 and 1859, was a British civil engineer and politician.-Political career:...
  
   is raised to the peerage as 1st Baron Llanover.
• 25 October - St Brynach's Church, Cwm-yr-Eglwys, is destroyed by the 'Royal Charter Storm
  Royal Charter Storm
  The Royal Charter Storm of 25 and 26 October 1859 was considered to be the most severe storm to hit the British Isles in the 19th century, with a total death toll estimated at over 800...
  
  '.
• 26 October - The steam clipper
  Clipper
  A clipper was a very fast sailing ship of the 19th century that had three or more masts and a square rig. They were generally narrow for their length, could carry limited bulk freight, small by later 19th century standards, and had a large total sail area...
  
   Royal Charter
  Royal Charter (ship)
  The Royal Charter was a steam clipper which was wrecked off the beach of Porth Alerth in Dulas Bay on the north-east coast of Anglesey on 26 October 1859. The precise number of dead is uncertain as the passenger list was lost in the wreck but about 459 lives were lost, the highest death toll of any...
  
   is wrecked off the north-east Anglesey
  Anglesey
  Anglesey , also known by its Welsh name Ynys Môn , is an island and, as Isle of Anglesey, a county off the north west coast of Wales...
  
   coast, with the estimated loss of around 459 lives, the greatest loss of life in any maritime accident in Welsh waters.
• Peak year for copper
  Copper
  Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu and atomic number 29. It is a ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. Pure copper is soft and malleable; an exposed surface has a reddish-orange tarnish...
  
   production in Wales.
• Opening of the East Bute Dock, Cardiff
  Cardiff
  Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
  
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• Merger of Yr Amserau and Baner Cymru.
• Religious revival led by Humphrey Jones.
• The Cymanfa Ganu
  Cymanfa Ganu
  A Cymanfa Ganu , is a Welsh festival of sacred hymns, sung with four part harmony by a congregation, usually under the direction of a choral director....
  
   movement is launched in Aberdare
  Aberdare
  Aberdare is an industrial town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Dare and Cynon. The population at the census was 31,705...
  
  .
• Sir Charles Morgan, 3rd Baronet
  Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar
  Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar was an English peer and member of the House of Lords. He represented the constituency of Brecon....
  
  , is created Baron Tredegar
  Baron Tredegar
  Baron Tredegar, of Tredegar in the County of Monmouth, was a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.It was created in 1859 for the Welsh politician Sir Charles Morgan, 3rd Baronet, who had earlier represented Brecon in Parliament. His eldest son, Charles Rodney Morgan, sat as Member of...
  
  .

Awards

• Lewis William Lewis (Llew Llwyfo) wins the chair at the Merthyr Tydfil
  Merthyr Tydfil
  Merthyr Tydfil is a town in Wales, with a population of about 30,000. Although once the largest town in Wales, it is now ranked as the 15th largest urban area in Wales. It also gives its name to a county borough, which has a population of around 55,000. It is located in the historic county of...
  
   eisteddfod.

New books

• Nathaniel Jones
  Nathaniel Jones (poet)
  Nathaniel Jones , was a Welsh Calvinistic Methodist minister and poet.Nathaniel Jones took his bardic name of "Cynhafal" from his birthplace of Llangynhafal in Denbighshire. He worked as a tailor, and later as a sales assistant, before becoming a preacher in 1859...
  
   - Fy Awenydd
• Richard Parry (Gwalchmai) - Adgofion am John Elias
• Thomas Stephens & Gweirydd ap Rhys - Orgraff yr Iaith Gymraeg
• William Thomas (Gwilym Marles)
  William Thomas (Gwilym Marles)
  William Thomas , better known by his bardic name of Gwilym Marles, was a Welsh minister and poet, and the great-uncle of Dylan Thomas. Dylan was given his middle name, "Marlais", in honour of William Thomas, who is also believed to have inspired the character of Rev...
  
   - Prydyddiaeth

Births

• 11 January - Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney, historian (died 1933)
• 29 January - Sir George Lockwood Morris
  George Lockwood Morris
  Sir George Lockwood Morris, 8th Baronet was a Welsh industrialist and iron founder. As a youth he was also notable as an international rugby union forward who won five caps for Wales...
  
  , industrialist and Welsh international rugby player (died 1947)
• 7 February - Frank Hancock
  Frank Hancock
  Francis Escott "Frank" Hancock was an English-born rugby union centre who played club rugby for Somerset and Cardiff and international rugby for Wales. Hancock is best known as being the sport's first fourth threequarter player, which changed the formation of rugby union play that lasts to the...
  
  , Wales international rugby union international (died 1943)
• 16 February - T. E. Ellis
  T. E. Ellis
  Thomas Edward Ellis , usually known as T. E. Ellis, was a Welsh politician who was the leader of Cymru Fydd, a movement aimed at gaining home rule for Wales.-Life:...
  
  , politician (died 1899)
• 18 April - Sir Evan Davies Jones, 1st Baronet
  Sir Evan Davies Jones, 1st Baronet
  Sir Evan Davies Jones, 1st Baronet , was a Welsh civil engineer and politician.The son of a sea captain, he was brought up in Fishguard and studied at the University of Bristol. He qualified as a civil engineer and was involved in the building of the Severn Tunnel and the Manchester Ship Canal...
  
  , civil engineer (died 1949)
• 4 May - Sir Samuel Thomas Evans
  Samuel Thomas Evans
  Sir Samuel Thomas Evans GCB PC QC , was a Welsh barrister, judge and Liberal politician.-Background and education:...
  
  , politician and judge (died 1918)
• 22 May - Jonathan Ceredig Davies, travel writer (died 1932)
• 17 July - Ernest Rhys
  Ernest Rhys
  Ernest Percival Rhys was an English writer, best known for his role as founding editor of the Everyman's Library series of affordable classics. He wrote essays, stories, poetry, novels and plays...
  
  , writer (died 1946)
• 5 December - Edward John Lewis
  Edward John Lewis
  Edward John Lewis was a Welsh medical doctor and international rugby union half-back who played club rugby for Llandovery College and international rugby for Wales...
  
  , Wales international rugby union player (died 1925)
• 7 December - Leonard Watkins
  Leonard Watkins
  Leonard Watkins was a Welsh international rugby union half-back who played club rugby for Cardiff Rugby Football Club and international rugby for Wales. He won just a single game for Wales when he was selected for the first ever Welsh rugby international.- Rugby career :Watkins was born in...
  
  , Wales international rugby union player (died 1901)
• 25 December - John Goulstone Lewis
  John Goulstone Lewis
  John "Johnny" Goulstone Lewis was a Welsh international rugby union half-back who played club rugby for Llanelli and international rugby for Wales...
  
   Wales international rugby union player (died 1935)
• November - Richard Bell
  Richard Bell (politician)
  Richard Bell was one of the first two British Labour Members of Parliament, and the first English one, elected after the formation of the Labour Representation Committee in 1900....
  
  , politician (died 1930)

Deaths

• 19 April - Christopher Bethell
  Christopher Bethell
  Christopher Bethell was Bishop of Bangor.Bethell was the second son of the Reverend Richard Bethell, the rector of St Peter's Wallingford, Berkshire, who died 12 January 1806 having married his wife Ann in 1771...
  
  , Bishop of Bangor, 85?
• 21 June - John Bowen
  John Bowen (bishop)
  John Bowen LL.D. was an Anglican bishop in Sierra Leone.Bowen, son of Thomas Bowen, captain in the 85th regiment, by his third wife, Mary, daughter of the Rev. John Evans, chaplain to the garrison at Placentia, Newfoundland, was born at Court, near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire...
  
  , Bishop of Sierra Leone, 43 (yellow fever)
• 8 July - John Thomas (Siôn Wyn o Eifion), poet, 78
• 10 September - Sir John Hay Williams
  John Hay Williams
  Sir John Hay Williams, 2nd Baronet was a descendant of Sir William Williams, who built Bodelwyddan Castle....
  
  , landowner, 65
• October - Evan Jones (Ifan y Gorlan), harpist