1886 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1886 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Richard Davies[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (until 31 March); John Ernest Greaves (from 17 May)[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â Edward Pryse
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor[4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â William Cornwallis-West[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Hugh Robert Hughes[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Robert Davies Pryce [8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite[12]
- Bishop of Bangor â James Colquhoun Campbell[13]
- Bishop of Llandaff â Richard Lewis[14]
- Bishop of St Asaph â Joshua Hughes[15]
- Bishop of St Davids â Basil Jones[16]
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales â Clwydfardd[17]
Events
- 9 June â Soprano Adelina Patti marries tenor Ernesto Nicolini in south Wales.
- 1 September â The Great Western Railway opens the Severn Tunnel to regular goods and mineral traffic (and to passengers on 1 December).
- September â Opening of the Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre.
- 15 October
- 20 people are drowned when the sailing ship Malleny is wrecked on Tusker Rocks, Porthcawl.
- 18 people are drowned when the sailing ship Teviotdale is wrecked on Cefn Sidan Sands in Carmarthenshire.
- 16 October
- Statue of the Liberal politician John Batchelor unveiled in Cardiff
- November
- Serious flooding in Aberystwyth.
- The keeper of the Mumbles lighthouse is swept out to sea and drowned.
- The rivers Mawddach, Dee and Taff all flood.
- Cantref Reservoir on the Taff Fawr is completed.
- Opening of the Cardiff Stock Exchange.
- Cymru Fydd is founded by the Liberal Party to further the cause of home rule.
- The Welsh Land League is founded.
- Beginning of the tithe revolt in Denbighshire.
- The corporation of the Borough of Holt is dissolved.
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales â held at Caernarfon
- Chair â Richard Davies, "Gobaith"[18]
- Crown â John Cadfan Davies
New books
- Rhoda Broughton â Doctor Cupid
Music
- William Owen "of Prysgol" â Y Perl Cerddorol yn cynnwys tonau ac anthemau, cysegredig a moesol (sol-fa edition)[19]
Sport
- Football â Druids win the Welsh Cup for the fifth time in its nine-year history.
- Rugby union â Abercynon RFC and Treorchy RFC are founded.
Births
- 3 March â Jack Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1951)
- 4 March â Rowland Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1914)
- 5 March
- Paul Radmilovic, competitive swimmer, four-time Olympic gold medal winner (died 1968)
- Freddie Welsh, né Thomas, World lightweight boxing champion (died 1927 in the United States)
- 14 March â David Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1916)
- 16 March â James Llewellyn Davies, VC winner (died 1917)
- 3 May â Morgan Jones, politician (died 1939)
- 4 May â Olive Wheeler, educationalist (died 1963)
- 6 June â John Morgan, Archbishop of Wales (died 1957)
- 17 June â David Brunt, meteorologist (died 1965)
- 11 July â Ernest Willows, aviation pioneer (died 1926)
- 13 July â Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams), poet (died 1961)
- 22 September â Bill Perry, Welsh international rugby player (died 1970)
- 29 September â Jack Williams, VC recipient (died 1953)
- 9 November (probably) â S. O. Davies, politician (died 1972)
- 10 November â Fred Birt, Wales international rugby union player (died 1956)
- 22 December â David James Jones, philosopher and academic (died 1947)
Deaths
- 28 February â John Jones, politician, 73[20]
- 12 March â Edward Arthur Somerset, politician, 69[21]
- 31 March â Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, 85[22]
- 7 May â Timothy Richards Lewis, surgeon and pathologist, 44[23]
- 9 June â Edward Williams, iron-master, 60)[24]
- 9 July â Roger Edwards, minister and writer, 75[25]
- 13 October â John Prichard, architect, 69[26]
- 29 October â Evan Evans, ("Evans Bach Nantyglo"), minister, 82[27]