1875 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1875 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Events

August - First publication of The Usk Gleaner and Monmouthshire Record.
December - South Wales miners, led by William Abraham, come to agreement on a sliding scale of wages in relation to prices and profits.
4 December - In a mining accident at Old Pit, New Tredegar, 22 men are killed.
5 December - In a mining accident at Llan Colliery, Pentyrch, twelve men are killed.
unknown dates
*The first imports of North American wheat come through Cardiff.
*The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service recognises Welsh as a distinct nationality - the first official body ever to do so.
*Ordnance Survey publishes the first complete maps of Wales.
*David Davies Llandinam is elected treasurer of the University of Wales.
*Major eisteddfod held at Pwllheli. Future archdruid Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) is a leading adjudicator.
*Francis Wallace Grenfell takes part in the expedition which claims Griqualand West for the UK.
*Bodnant Garden is begun by Baron Aberconway.

Arts and literature

Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot buys James Milo Griffith's Summer Flowers for Margam Castle.

New books

English language

Hugh Owen Thomas - ''Diseases of the Hip, Knee, and Ankle Joints''

Welsh language

William Ambrose - Gweithiau y Parch. W. Ambrose
David Stephen Davies - Adroddiad
Isaac Foulkes - Y Ddau Efell, neu Llanllonydd
Owen Jones (Meudwy Môn) - Cymru, yn Hanesyddol, Parthedegol, a Bywgraphyddol
John Goronwy Mathias - Y Dywysen Aeddfed
Evan Rees (Dyfed) - ''Caniadau Dyfedfab''

Music

Robert Griffiths becomes the first secretary of the tonic solfa college.
Joseph Parry composes the music to Myfanwy.
Sarah Edith Wynne marries and retires from her singing career.

Sport

Rugby union - Llanelli RFC and Risca RFC are formed.
Yachting - Bristol Channel Yacht Club is formed in Swansea.

Births

3 January - Cliff Bowen, Wales international rugby player and county cricketer
4 January – William Williams (Crwys), poet and Archdruid
19 January – Thomas Owen Jones, dramatist, actor and producer
23 February – David Brazell, singer
4 March – John Kelt Edwards, cartoonist
23 May – Nathaniel Walters, Wales international rugby player
26 May – Jack Evans, Wales international rugby player
31 May – Daniel Jones, Wales international rugby player
11 June – Will Osborne, Wales international rugby player
16 June – Henry Paget, Lord Paget, eccentric, born in Paris
10 September
*John Evans, politician
*Harry Vaughan Watkins, Wales international rugby player
26 October – Sir Lewis Casson, English-born artist
20 December – T. F. Powys, Anglo-Welsh writer
25 December – George Davies, international rugby player

Deaths

4 January – Thomas Stephens, historian, literary critic and social reformer
4 March – John Evans, minister and author, 60
April – Frances Bunsen, painter, 85
16 April – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire, 83
19 July – Benjamin Davies, Hebraist, 60/61
27 July – Connop Thirlwall, former Bishop of St Davids, 78
19 August – Robert Elis (Cynddelw), writer, 63
28 August – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet, politician, 73
7 September – John Prichard, minister, author and teacher, 79
16 September – Lucy Herbert, Countess of Powis, Scottish-born aristocrat, 81
29 November – Thomas Jones, librarian, 65
date unknown
*David Davies, composer, about 65
* – Fanny Parkes, travel writer, 81