• Source: 1876 in Wales

      • This article is about the particular significance of the year 1876 to Wales and its people.


      Incumbents



      Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley
      Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
      Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn
      Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse
      Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
      Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
      Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
      Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
      Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
      Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
      Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley
      Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
      Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite
      Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
      Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
      Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes
      Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones
      Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd (first official holder of the position


      Events


      January – The Argentine government appoints Antonio Oneto as civil authority over the Welsh colony in Patagonia, the population of which numbers 690.
      9 January – The death of John Russell, Viscount Amberley, leaves Bertrand Russell an orphan.
      19 May – Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet, files for bankruptcy in Manchester with debts exceeding £500,000, causing his Dinas Mawddwy estate to be put up for sale.
      June – Francis Kilvert becomes vicar of Saint Harmon, Radnorshire.
      13 July – Act of Parliament allows the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Company to abandon plans for a line between Croesor Junction and Betws-y-Coed.
      22 July – Art Treasures & Industrial Exhibition of North Wales & the Border Counties in Wrexham is opened.
      19 August – Judge John Johnes is murdered at his home on Dolaucothi Estate by his butler.
      2 December – Cardiff RFC plays its first match, against Newport.
      18 December – In a mining accident at South Wales Pit, Abertillery, twenty men are killed.


      Arts and literature




      = New books

      =
      George Thomas Orlando Bridgeman – History of the Princes of South Wales


      = Music

      =
      Eos Bradwen – Bugeiles yr Wyddfa
      Joseph Parry composes the hymn tune Aberystwyth (published 1879) which becomes the basis of the pan-African anthem Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika


      Sport


      Football
      2 February – Llewelyn Kenrick sets up the Football Association of Wales in a meeting at the Wynnstay Arms hotel in Wrexham, in response to a challenge issued by The Field magazine, to organize an international match between Wales and Scotland or Ireland.
      25 March – Wales play first international football match, against Scotland in Glasgow, losing 4–0.
      Formation of Caernarfon athletics club, later Caernarfon Town.
      Rugby union – Aberavon RFC, Cardiff RFC, Cardigan RFC, Llandaff RFC, Merthyr RFC and Pontypridd RFC are established.


      Births



      7 March – Edgar Evans, naval petty officer and Antarctic explorer (died 1912)
      19 June – Joe Pullman, Wales international rugby union player (died 1955)
      22 June – Gwen John, artist (died 1939)
      15 July
      Jehoida Hodges, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1930)
      Jack Rhapps, Dual-code rugby international (died 1950)
      24 July – Viv Huzzey, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1929)
      18 September – Charles Kemeys-Tynte, 8th Baron Wharton (died 1934)
      17 November – Dicky Owen, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1932)


      Deaths



      3 January – Rosser Beynon, musician, 64
      19 February – Daniel Davies, Baptist preacher, 78
      24 February – Joseph Jenkins Roberts, President of Liberia, son of a Welsh planter, 66
      23 April (at Karlsruhe) – Frances Bunsen, painter, 85
      2 May – Daniel Thomas Williams (Tydfylyn), poet and musician (born 1820)
      15 June – John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician, 60
      19 July (in the United States) – George E. Pugh, Welsh-American politician, 53
      8 August – Lady Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams, English-born artist and illustrator, 75
      21 August – C. W. Evan, Congregationalist minister in colonial South Australia, age unknown
      9 November – John David Jenkins, philanthropist, 58
      17 November – Thomas Rees (Twm Carnabwth), leader of Rebecca Riots
      20 November – Robert Herbert Williams (Corfanydd), musician (born 1805)
      25 December – Adrian Stephens, inventor of the steam whistle, 81


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