This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore (until 12 July); Edward Pryse (from 14 September) Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st 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 – Robert Davies Pryce Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall
Events
4 March — Thomas Gee launches the radical nonconformist newspaper Baner Cymru in Denbigh. 24 March — 1857 United Kingdom general election, concludes. Anglesey antiquarian William Owen Stanley becomes Whig MP for the Beaumaris District of Boroughs. 6 May — Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails for Tennessee. 1 June — Opening of the Crumlin Viaduct, built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway. 10 August — John Bowen is consecrated as Bishop of Sierra Leone. 13 August — Eugene Goddard crosses the Menai Strait in his gas balloon Aurora from Caernarfon Castle to Llanidan. 3 October — The Newport Gazette is founded by William Nicholas Johns. 14 October — Four people are killed in a railway accident near Pyle. 29 October — St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, badly damaged by arson. Autumn — Aberdare Strike 1857-8 against reductions in coal miners' pay begins. Railway workers go on strike at Aberdare.
Arts and literature New books English language Richard Williams Morgan — The British Kymry or Britons of Cambria
Welsh language Owen Wynne Jones — Dafydd Llwyd Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri) — Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri
Music John Ashton — "Trefeglwys" (hymn tune)
Births 2 February — Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician and ship-owner (died 1933) 7 February — Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952) 28 February — Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain (died 1922) 27 April — Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player (died 1933) 12 May — Sarah Jacob, the "fasting girl" (died 1869) 20 June — Dan Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1936) 28 June — Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933) 1 July — Martha Hughes Cannon, women's rights activist and politician in the United States (died 1932) 19 September — James Bridie, Scottish-born Wales international rugby union player (died 1893 in England) 8 November — Frank Purdon, Wales rugby union international 14 November — John Thomas Rees, musician (died 1949) 2 December — Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, surgeon (died 1943) Llewellyn Cadwaladr, operatic tenor (died 1909)
Deaths 3 January — Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (second creation), 55 23 January — Edward Anwyl, Wesleyan minister and teacher, 70 10 February — David Thompson, explorer of Welsh parentage, 86 29 March — Elijah Waring, writer, ±69 16 May — Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer, 74 13 June — Daniel Rees, hymn-writer, 64 12 July — Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore, Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, 64 12 August — William Daniel Conybeare, dean of Llandaff, 70(Obituary in Gentleman's Magazine Sept. 1857, p. 335) 16 August — John Jones, Talysarn, leading non-conformist minister, 61
See also 1857 in Ireland
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