1876 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1876 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â William Owen Stanley[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â Edward Pryse[7][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â William Cornwallis-West
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Hugh Robert Hughes
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite
- Bishop of Bangor â James Colquhoun Campbell[12][13]
- Bishop of Llandaff â Alfred Ollivant[14]
- Bishop of St Asaph â Joshua Hughes[15][14]
- Bishop of St Davids â Basil Jones[14][16]
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales â Clwydfardd (first official holder of the position[17]
Events
- January â The Argentine government appoints Antonio Oneto as civil authority over the Welsh colony in Patagonia, the population of which numbers 690.
- 9 January â The death of John Russell, Viscount Amberley, leaves Bertrand Russell an orphan.[18]
- 19 May â Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet, files for bankruptcy in Manchester with debts exceeding £500,000, causing his Dinas Mawddwy estate to be put up for sale.[19]
- June â Francis Kilvert becomes vicar of Saint Harmon, Radnorshire.[20]
- 13 July â Act of Parliament allows the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Company to abandon plans for a line between Croesor Junction and Betws-y-Coed.
- 22 July â Art Treasures & Industrial Exhibition of North Wales & the Border Counties in Wrexham is opened.
- 19 August â Judge John Johnes is murdered at his home on Dolaucothi Estate by his butler.
- 2 December â Cardiff RFC plays its first match, against Newport.
- 18 December â In a mining accident at South Wales Pit, Abertillery, twenty men are killed.
Arts and literature
New books
- George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman â History of the Princes of South Wales
Music
- Eos Bradwen â Bugeiles yr Wyddfa
- Joseph Parry composes the hymn tune Aberystwyth (published 1879) which becomes the basis of the pan-African anthem Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika
Sport
- Football
- 2 February â Llewelyn Kenrick sets up the Football Association of Wales in a meeting at the Wynnstay Arms hotel in Wrexham, in response to a challenge issued by The Field magazine, to organize an international match between Wales and Scotland or Ireland.
- 25 March â Wales play first international football match, against Scotland in Glasgow, losing 4â0.
- Formation of Caernarfon athletics club, later Caernarfon Town.
- Rugby union â Aberavon RFC, Cardiff RFC, Cardigan RFC, Llandaff RFC, Merthyr RFC and Pontypridd RFC are established.
Births
- 7 March â Edgar Evans, naval petty officer and Antarctic explorer (died 1912)[21]
- 19 June â Joe Pullman, Wales international rugby union player (died 1955)
- 22 June â Gwen John, artist (died 1939)[22]
- 15 July
- Jehoida Hodges, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1930)
- Jack Rhapps, Dual-code rugby international (died 1950)
- 24 July â Viv Huzzey, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1929)
- 18 September â Charles Kemeys-Tynte, 8th Baron Wharton (died 1934)[23]
- 17 November â Dicky Owen, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1932)
Deaths
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- 3 January â Rosser Beynon, musician, 64[24]
- 19 February â Daniel Davies, Baptist preacher, 78[25]
- 24 February â Joseph Jenkins Roberts, President of Liberia, son of a Welsh planter, 66[26]
- 23 April (at Karlsruhe) â Frances Bunsen, painter, 85[27]
- 2 May â Daniel Thomas Williams (Tydfylyn), poet and musician (born 1820)[28]
- 15 June â John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician, 60[29]
- 19 July (in the United States) â George E. Pugh, Welsh-American politician, 53[30]
- 8 August â Lady Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams, English-born artist and illustrator, 75[31]
- 21 August â C. W. Evan, Congregationalist minister in colonial South Australia, age unknown
- 9 November â John David Jenkins, philanthropist, 58[32]
- 17 November â Thomas Rees (Twm Carnabwth), leader of Rebecca Riots[33]
- 20 November â Robert Herbert Williams (Corfanydd), musician (born 1805)[34]
- 25 December â Adrian Stephens, inventor of the steam whistle, 81[35]