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- 28 February — A paddle steamer, Nimrod, is wrecked off St David's Head, and 45 people are killed.[25]
- 1 March — First section of Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway opens to a station in Carmarthen; on 3 September it extends over the course of what becomes known as the Gwili Railway to Conwil.
- 7 March — HMS Howe, the Royal Navy’s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line, is launched at Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.[26]
- 1 May — First section of Oswestry and Newtown Railway opens from Oswestry (Shropshire) to Pool Quay; on 14 August it extends to Welshpool and also opens between Abermule and Newtown. These lines have been built by David Davies Llandinam and Thomas Savin but on 29 October Davies dissolves their partnership.[27]
- 23 August — Consecration of Marble Church, Bodelwyddan.[28]
- 24 November — A statue of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey is added to the column built in his honour by Thomas Harrison earlier in the century.[29]
- 1 December — The sixth underground explosion in the Risca Black Vein Pit at Crosskeys in the Sirhowy Valley of Monmouthshire kills 142 coal miners.[30][31]
- Discovery of Gwynfynydd Gold Mine gold mine at Dolgellau.
- Founding of the Danygraig Copperworks.[32]
- The Beaufort Tinplate Works is set up on the River Tawe by John Jones Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe.[33]
- The Big Pit at Blaenavon begins producing coal.[34]
- Nixon's Navigation Colliery at Mountain Ash opened, becoming the first true deep pit in South Wales.[35]
- Principality Building Society established in Cardiff as the Principality Permanent Benefit Building and Investment Society.
- Four gun batteries are installed on Flat Holm.
- A mosque is founded in Cardiff Bay; it is sometimes incorrectly claimed as the first mosque in the UK.[36]
- Excavation of Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles.
- approx. date — Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey adopts the long form of its name.
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- At the Denbigh eisteddfod, a decision is made to launch a national eisteddfod.
- An eisteddfod is held at Utica, New York.
- 21 February – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor (died 1952)[39]
- 25 March – Jack Powell, footballer (died 1947
- 29 March – Edward Peake, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
- 14 April – Howell Elvet Lewis (Elved), poet and archdruid (died 1953)
- 19 April – William Penfro Rowlands, composer (died 1937)
- 12 May – Sir John Ballinger, librarian (died 1933)
- 24 May – Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, lawyer and politician (died 1926)
- 6 June – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet (died 1944)
- 30 July – Richard Summers, Wales rugby union international (died 1941)
- 6 September – George Irby, 6th Baron Boston, landowner and scientist (died 1941)[40]
- 25 September – Thomas Francis Roberts, academic (died 1919)
- 31 December – Horace Lyne, Wales international rugby player and WRU president (died 1949)
- date unknown
- 26 January – Thomas Wood, politician, 82[41]
- 21 March – John Lloyd Davies, politician[42]
- 4 May – William Ormsby-Gore, politician, 81[43]
- 1 July – Robert Thomas, printer and newspaper proprietor who settled in Australia, 78[44]
- 17 July – Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse, 71[45]
- 31 August – John Parker, clergyman and artist, 61[46]
- 7 November – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 69[9]
- 13 November – David Dale Owen, geologist in the USA, 53[47]
- 27 November – Richard Richards, politician, 73[48]
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