1886 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1886 to Wales and its people.

← 1885 1884 1883 1882 1881 1886 in Wales → 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1886 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – Alexandra
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd

Events

• 9 June – Soprano Adelina Patti marries tenor Ernesto Nicolini in south Wales.
• 1 September – The Great Western Railway opens the Severn Tunnel to regular goods and mineral traffic (and to passengers on 1 December).
• September – 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.
• 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 – held at Caernarfon

• Chair – Richard Davies, "Gobaith"[1]
• Crown – John Cadfan Davies

New books

• Rhoda Broughton – Doctor Cupid

Music

• William Owen "of Prysgol" – Y Perl Cerddorol yn cynnwys tonau ac anthemau, cysegredig a moesol (sol-fa edition)[2]

Sport

• Football – Druids win the Welsh Cup for the fifth time in its nine-year history.
• Rugby union – Abercynon RFC and Treorchy RFC are founded.

Births

• 3 March – Jack Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1951)
• 4 March – Rowland Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1914)
• 5 March – Freddie Welsh, Lightweight boxing champion of the world (died 1927)
• 14 March – David Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1916)
• 16 March – James Llewellyn Davies, VC winner (died 1917)
• 28 March – John Osborn Williams, entrepreneur (died 1963)
• 3 May – Morgan Jones, Welsh politician (died 1939)
• 4 May – Olive Wheeler, educationalist (died 1963)
• 6 June – John Morgan, Archbishop of Wales (died 1957)
• 17 June – David Brunt, meteorologist (died 1965)
• 11 July – Ernest Willows, aviation pioneer (died 1926)
• 13 July – Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams), poet (died 1961)
• 22 September – Bil Perry, Welsh international rugby player (died 1970)
• 29 September – Jack Williams, VC recipient (died 1953)
• 9 November (probably) – S. O. Davies, politician (died 1972)
• 10 November – Fred Birt, Wales international rugby union player (died 1956)
• 22 December – David James Jones, philosopher and academic (died 1947)

Deaths

• 28 February – John Jones, politician, 73
• 31 March – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, 85
• 9 July – Roger Edwards, minister and writer, 75
• 13 October – John Prichard, architect, 69
• 29 October – Evan Evans, ("Evans Bach Nantyglo"), minister, 82[3]

References

1. "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
2. Dictionary of Welsh Biography entry
3. Dictionary of Welsh Biography entry