This article is about the particular significance of the year 1870 to Wales and its people.
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 – Thomas Vowler Short (retired); Joshua Hughes (from 9 May) Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall
Events January — Francis Kilvert begins his famous diary. 14 February — In a mining accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 30 men are killed. April — George Osborne Morgan introduces the Burials Bill and the Places of Worship (Acquisition of Land) Bill to Parliament. unknown dates Sir George Gilbert Scott completes the restoration of Bangor Cathedral. In India, Timothy Richards Lewis discovers a nematoid worm, which he calls Filaria sanguinis hominis (later "Wuchereria bancrofti"). William Thomas Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, begins acquiring the collieries later known as the Lewis Merthyr collieries in Rhondda. Jacob Lloyd is created a Knight of the Order of St. Gregory the Great by Pope Pius IX. Thomas William Rhys Davids begins a series of articles for the Ceylon branch of the Royal Asiatic Society Journal.
Arts and literature New books John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Haf David Lloyd Davies — Ceinwen Morgan neu y Rian Ddiwylliedig Richard Davies (Mynyddog) — Yr Ail Gynnig
Music
Sport Billiards — John Roberts, Sr. loses the English billiards championship after 21 years. Association football — Druids of Rhiwabon formed.
Births 13 January — Conway Rees, rugby player (died 1932) 10 March — George "Honey Boy" Evans, Welsh-born US entertainer (died 1915) 20 March — Eluned Morgan, author (died 1938) 25 March — Wallace Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1950) 19 June — Charles Nicholl, Wales international rugby union player (died 1939) 29 June Arthur Boucher, Wales international rugby union player (died 1948) Sir Charles Dillwyn-Venables-Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, politician (died 1951) 14 July — Helena Jones, doctor and suffragette (died 1946) 16 July — William Henry Prosser, teacher and cricketer (died 1952) 27 July — Herbert Millingchamp Vaughan, historian (died 1948) 18 August — William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician and Wales international rugby player (died 1946) 27 September — Thomas Jones (T. J.), civil servant (died 1955) 22 October — J. Glyn Davies, scholar, poet and songwriter (died 1953) 3 November — Norman Biggs, Wales international rugby player (died 1908) 15 November — William Elsey, Wales international rugby player (died 1936) 20 December — Sir David Davies, politician (died 1958) 29 December — Robert Dewi Williams, teacher, minister and writer (died 1955) 31 December — David John Jones, Dean of Llandaff (died 1949) December — Ernest William Jones, steamship agent and cricketer (died 1941) date unknown John William Evans, politician (died 1906) John Hughes Morris, missionary (died 1953)
Deaths 16 March — Thomas Parry, Bishop of Barbados, 74 4 April — Owen Wynne Jones, writer, 42 15 May — Charles Hinde (army officer), soldier, 49 27 May — John Etherington Welch Rolls, Monmouthshire landowner and father of 1st Baron Llangattock, 63 23 June — Isaac Hughes, Calvinist missionary and preacher, 71/72 1 August — Levi Gibbon, balladeer, 92 17 September — Joseph David Jones, composer, 43 27 October — Owen Jones Ellis Nanney, politician, 80 29 October — Jacob Owen, architect and civil engineer, 92 16 November — Harry Longueville Jones, antiquary, 64
See also 1870 in Ireland
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