1858 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1858 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

January
*Teaching begins at Bangor Normal College, founded by Hugh Owen.
*End of Aberdare Strike 1857-8 in the coal mining industry.
20 April – John Jones is given a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.
June – Erection of the Town Clock at Tredegar.
20 June – End of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, which Major General Charles Hinde plays a major role in suppressing.
29 August – Musician Robert Davies (Asaph Llechid) is killed by a rockfall while at work in Cae-braich-y-cafn quarry.
5 October – The Vale of Clwyd Railway, built by David Davies Llandinam, is opened.
13 October – 20 men are killed in a mining accident at Lower Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.
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*The schooner Mary Catherine, launched at Amlwch, is the first iron ship built in Wales.
*Richard Kyrke Penson exhibits a plan of his design for the Cilyrychen lime kilns at the Royal Academy.

"Great Eisteddfod" at Llangollen; early appearance of Gorsedd ceremony. Ebenezer Thomas wins first prize for his poem Maes Bosworth.

William Davies (Gwilym Teilo) — Llandilo-Vawr and its Neighbourhood
Robert Owen — An Introduction to the Study of Dogmatic Theology
Louisa M. Spooner — Gladys of Harlech
Alfred Russel Wallace — ''On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely From the Original Type''