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- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (from 14 September)[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse[8][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley[14]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington[15]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[16][2]
- 13 January – The brig Albion runs aground off Whitford Point and is abandoned by her seven crew members, all of whom drown.[23]
- 22 January – Sixteen vessels are lost in a gale off the Burry estuary, with a total of thirty lives lost.
- 1 February – At the bridge over the Severn at Caersws an approach embankment, damaged by flood water, collapses under a train. The driver and fireman are killed.
- July – Pastor Karl Herman Lunde begins fund-raising for the new Norwegian Seamen's Church in Cardiff.[25]
- 4 August – Opening of the Bala and Dolgelly Railway,[26] completing the Ruabon to Barmouth Line via Corwen and alongside Bala Lake.
- 20 August – Abergele rail disaster: 33 people die in a fire resulting from a collision between a mail train and a set of trucks at Llandulas station near Abergele, the greatest loss of life in a railway accident in Wales.[27]
- October – Work begins on Nant-y-Ffrith reservoir.
- 2 December – The United Kingdom general election leaves Gladstone's Liberals the dominant party in Wales, with 21 seats.[28]
- John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, sponsors restoration work at Caerphilly Castle.
- English manufacturer Frederick Walton, the inventor of linoleum, takes up residence on his father's Cwmllecoediog Estate near Aberangell, whose development he begins.[29]
- First publication of the Welsh-language periodical, Baner America, in the USA.[30]
- Y Dydd is founded, with Samuel Roberts (S. R.) as editor.[31]
- Iron Age crannog is discovered on an island in Llangorse Lake, near Brecon.
New books
Welsh language
- Robert Elis (Cynddelw) – Geiriadur Cymreig Cymraeg
- John Ceiriog Hughes – Oriau eraill
- Jabez Edmund Jenkins – Rhiangerdd – Gwenfron o'r Dyffryn
- Griffith Jones (Glan Menai) – Enwogion Sir Aberteifi[32]
- Rhys Gwesyn Jones – Caru, Priodi, a Byw
- John Phillips (Tegidon) – Y Ddeilen ar y Traeth
- 13 January – John Parry, Mormon convert, 79
- 25 April – Sarah Williams, English novelist of Welsh parentage, 30[34]
- 22 June – Owain Meirion, poet, 65
- 3 August – Edward Welch, architect, 61/62
- 17 August – William Nevill, 4th Earl of Abergavenny, 76[35]
- 11 September – Maria James, poet, 74[36]
- 16 September – John Vaughan, English ironmaster, 68[37]
- 24 November – Sir John Dorney Harding, lawyer, 59
- date unknown – Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (born 1803)[38]
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Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
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James Henry Clark (1869). History of Monmouthshire. County Observer. p. 375.
Amy Audrey Locke (1916). The Hanbury Family. Arthur L. Humphreys. p. 170.
Smith, Jenny (1990). Portraits for a King : the British military paintings of A-J Dubois Drahonet (1791-1834. London: National Army Museum. p. 15. ISBN 9780901721211.
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The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
Annual Report Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors. National Library of Wales. 1962. p. 59.
Hume, Robert (2004). Death by Chance: The Abergele Train Disaster, 1868. Llanrwst: Gwasg Carreg Gwalch. ISBN 0-86381-900-1.
Davies, John (1993). A history of Wales. London: Allen Lane Penguin Books. p. 432. ISBN 9780713990980.
Ceredigion. Cardiganshire Antiquarian Society. 1972. p. 348.
Ernest Newman (1955). Fanfare for Ernest Newman. A. Barker. p. 2. ISBN 9781404792340.
J.J. (1885). Harris, James (ed.). "Queries". The Red Dragon: The National Magazine of Wales. 8: 406.
Wilson, James Grant; Fiske, John (1887). Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography. Page 399.