1871 in Wales

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley

• 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 – 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 – Joshua Hughes

• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

Events

• 24 February – In a mining accident at Pentre Colliery, Rhondda, 38 men are killed.
• 21 March – Welsh-born journalist Henry Morton Stanley sets out for Africa to seek missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone.
• June – Miners' strike in South Wales culminates in defeat for the union.
• 14 August – The Van Railway, built by David Davies Llandinam, opens to carry traffic from the Van lead mines to Caersws.
• 10 November – Stanley locates Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, and allegedly greets him saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
• date unknown
  • Lewis Jones is appointed governor of Chubut Province by the government of Argentina.
  • Operations at the White Rock smelting works in Swansea are extended by Henry Hussey Vivian to include the treatment of silver and lead ore.

Arts and literature

Awards

• Evan Jones (Gurnos) wins a bardic chair at Ystradyfodwg.

New books

• W. R. Ambrose – Hynafiaethau, Cofiannau a Hanes Presennol Nant Nantlle, y Traethawd Buddugol yn Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Pen-y-groes
• Robert Fowler, MD – A Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl
• James Kenward – Ab Ithel
• Thomas Purnell
  • Dramatists of the Present Day
  • Correspondence and Works of Charles Lamb

Music

• John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) is appointed harpist to Queen Victoria.

Sport

• Rugby union – Neath RFC is founded.

Births

• 5 January – Percy Lloyd, Wales national rugby player (died 1959)
• 23 February – Jack Evans, Wales national rugby player (died 1924)
• 2 March – Billy Bancroft, sportsman (died 1959)
• 28 March – R. Silyn Roberts, Socialist and pacifist writer (died 1930)
• 1 April - Dai St. John, heavyweight boxer (died 1899)
• 6 April – Prince Alexander John of Wales, youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1871, shortly after birth)
• 12 April – Ellis William Davies, politician (died 1939)
• 15 April – John Humphreys Davies, writer (died 1926)
• 11 May – George Howells, academic and writer (died 1955)
• 6 June – Evan Lloyd, Wales international rugby player (died 1951)
• 14 June – David Nicholl, rugby player (died 1918)
• July - Owen Jones, footballer (died 1955)
• 2 July – Sir Evan Williams, 1st Baronet, industrialist (died 1959)
• 3 July – W. H. Davies, poet (died 1940)
• 13 August – Jack Elliott, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
• 21 September – Alfred Brice, Wales international rugby player (died 1938)
• 1 October – Sir Lewis Lougher, industrialist and politician (died 1955)
• 10 October – Thomas Gwynn Jones, poet (died 1949)
• 3 November – Owen Badger, Wales national rugby player (died 1939)
• 27 November – Robert Evans (Cybi), writer (died 1956)
• 29 November (in England) – Ruth Herbert Lewis, social reformer and collector of Welsh folk songs (died 1946)
• 1 December – Bert Dauncey, Wales international rugby player (died 1955)
• 3 December – Sir Percy Emerson Watkins, civil servant (died 1946)
• date unknown
  • William Jenkins, politician (died 1944)
  • Howard Passadoro, footballer (died 1921)
  • Thomas Mardy Rees, historian and author (died 1953)

Deaths

• 12 January – Richard Hughes, printer and publisher, 76/7
• 19 January – Thomas Jeremy Griffiths, minister, hymn-writer and teacher, about 75
• 30 January – Edward Howell, US politician of Welsh descent, 78
• February – Robert Roberts, musician, 30
• 9 May – Edward Morgan, minister and writer, 53
• 23 July – Arthur James Johnes, judge, 62
• 2 August – David James (Dewi o Ddyfed), writer (born 1803)
• 3 October – David Marks, musician and composer, about 83
• 6 October – Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 59
• 2 December – Joseph Jones, Catholic priest and bard, 72

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