1860s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1860–1869 to Wales and its people.
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
- 1861 - Aberdare
- 1862 - Caernarfon
- 1863 - Swansea
- 1864 - Llandudno
- 1865 - Aberystwyth
- 1866 - Chester
- 1867 - Carmarthen - A crown is presented for the first time[1]
- 1868 - Ruthin - The Eisteddfod Council is disbanded
- 1869 - Holywell
New books
- R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan (1864)[2]
- George Borrow - Wild Wales (1862)[3]
- Rhoda Broughton - Cometh Up as a Flower (1867)[4]
- Richard Davies (Mynyddog) - Caneuon Mynyddog (1866)[5]
- Huw Derfel - Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn (1864)
- Robert Jones Derfel - Traethodau ac Areithiau (1864)
- John Ceiriog Hughes
- Oriau'r Hwyr (1860)
- Oriau'r Bore (1862)
- Cant o Ganeuon (1863)
- Y Bardd a'r Cerddor (1865)
- Oriau eraill (1868)
- David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) - Yr Ysgol Farddol (1869)
- William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) - Emmanuel (1861)
- William Thomas (Islwyn) - Caniadau (1867)
- Robert Williams (Trebor Mai)
- Fy Noswyl (1861)
- Geninen (1869)
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of 'Natural Selection (1864)
- The Malay Archipelago (1867)
Music
- William Griffiths (Ifander) - Gwarchae Harlech (cantata) (1864)
- Hugh Jerman - Deus Misereatur (1861)
- Henry Brinley Richards - "God Bless the Prince of Wales" (1863)[6]
- John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia)[7]
Sport
- 1860 - The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.[8]
References
- ^ "Chair and Crown". Museum Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ^ John Sutherland (2014). The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Taylor & Francis. p. 127. ISBN 9781317863335.
- ^ Prys Morgan, "Early Victorian Wales and its crisis of identity" in Brockliss, L. W. B. (1997). A union of multiple identities: the British Isles, c. 1750-c. 1850. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. p. 93. ISBN 9780719050466.
- ^ Adrienne E. Gavin; Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton (2020). British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s. Springer International Publishing. pp. 123–6. ISBN 9783030385286.
- ^ Thomas Hughes Jones. "Davies, Richard (Mynyddog; 1833-1877), poet, singer, and eisteddfod conductor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "Richards, Henry Brinley (1819-1885), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 13 December 2025.
- ^ a b c "Thomas, John Pencerdd Gwalia (1826-1913), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 December 2025.
- ^ "Remembering when bowlers didn't wear whites..." Abergavenny Chronicle. 16 July 2025. Retrieved 14 December 2025.