1867 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar
- 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 – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover ; Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
- Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
- Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
- Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
- Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall
Events
- 3 June – The opening of the Anglesey Central Railway to passenger traffic links Amlwch to the rail network for the first time.
- 19 August – The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public.
- 2 September – The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.
- 30 September – Mawddwy Railway opens.
- 10 October – Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary opens to rail traffic, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.
- 26–27 October – Barque Earl of Chester is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of at least 17 lives.
- 8 November – 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
- date unknown
- *Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
- *The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.
Arts and literature
Awards
- At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.
New books
- Rhoda Broughton – Cometh Up as a Flower
- Edward Hamer – The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes
- Jabez Edmund Jenkins – Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau
- Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan - Penhow Castle
- William Thomas (Islwyn) – Caniadau
- Alfred Russel Wallace – The Malay Archipelago
- Charles Wilkins – ''The History of Merthyr Tydfil''
Music
- David Roberts (Alawydd) – ''Llyfr y Psalmau''
Sport
- Boxing – The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published.
Births
- 10 March
- *Sir William James Thomas, 1st baronet, philanthropist, one of the Thomas baronets of Yapton
- *William Llewelyn Williams, politician
- 10 April – Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, peer
- 2 May – Eliseus Williams, poet
- 13 May – Frank Brangwyn, artist
- 15 May – Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic
- 21 May – John Thomas Job, poet
- 26 May – Mary of Teck, member of the British royal family, Princess of Wales 1901–1910
- 29 September – John Richard Williams, poet
- 6 October – Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player
- 12 October – Lyn Harding, actor
- 2 November – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer
- 28 November – James Richard Atkin, judge
- 18 December – David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East
- date unknown
- *Mia Arnesby Brown, born Mia Sarah H. Edwards, painter of children's portraits
- *Fred Hutchinson, rugby player
Deaths
- 15 February – Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82
- 18 February – Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48
- 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64
- 26 May – Thomas Phillips, politician and businessman, 65/66
- 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79
- 9 September – John Propert, physician, 74
- 12 September – Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67
- 16 November – Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59
- 1 December – William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74