1857 in Wales

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

← 1856 1855 1854 1853 1852 1857 in Wales → 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862
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

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales — vacant

Events

Crumlin Viaduct

• 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.

Arts and literature

English language

• Richard Williams Morgan — The British Kymry or Britons of Cambria[5]

Welsh language

• Owen Wynne Jones — Dafydd Llwyd
• Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) — Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri[6]

Music

• John Ashton — "Trefeglwys" (hymn tune)

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 3 January — Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (second creation), 55
• 10 February — David Thompson, explorer of Welsh parentage, 86
• 29 March — Elijah Waring, writer, ±69
• 16 May — Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer, 74
• 13 June - Daniel Rees, hymn-writer, 64
• 12 August — William Daniel Conybeare, dean of Llandaff, 70
• 16 August — John Jones, Talysarn, leading non-conformist minister, 61

References

1. Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (2001). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian. The Society. p. 112.
2. Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales. Longmans, Green, Reader. pp. 48–.
3. John Elliott (2004). The Industrial Development of the Ebbw Valleys, 1780-1914. University of Wales Press. p. 111. ISBN 978-0-7083-1890-4.
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.
5. 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.
6. National Library of Wales (1985). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Council of the National Library of Wales.