1860s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1860–1869 to Wales and its people.

Events

 * 1860
 * 1861
 * 1862
 * 1863
 * 1864
 * 1865
 * 1866
 * 1867
 * 1868
 * 1869

Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales
 * 1861 - Aberdare
 * 1862 - Caernarfon
 * 1863 - Swansea
 * 1864 - Llandudno
 * 1865 - Aberystwyth
 * 1866 - Chester
 * 1867 - Carmarthen - A crown is presented for the first time
 * 1868 - Ruthin - The Eisteddfod Council is disbanded
 * 1869 - Holywell

New books

 * R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan (1864)
 * George Borrow - Wild Wales (1862)
 * Rhoda Broughton - Cometh up as a Flower (1867)
 * Richard Davies (Mynyddog) - Caneuon Mynyddog (1866)
 * Huw Derfel - Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn (1864)
 * Robert Jones Derfel - Traethodau ac Areithiau (1864)
 * John Ceiriog Hughes
 * Oriau'r Hwyr (1860)
 * Oriau'r Bore (1862)
 * Cant o Ganeuon (1863)
 * Y Bardd a'r Cerddor (1865)
 * Oriau eraill (1868)
 * David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) - Yr Ysgol Farddol (1869)
 * William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) - Emmanuel (1861)
 * William Thomas (Islwyn) - Caniadau (1867)
 * Robert Williams (Trebor Mai)
 * Fy Noswyl (1861)
 * Geninen (1869)
 * Alfred Russel Wallace
 * The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of 'Natural Selection (1864)
 * The Malay Archipelago (1867)

Music

 * William Griffiths (Ifander) - Gwarchae Harlech (cantata) (1864)
 * Hugh Jerman - Deus Misereatur (1861)
 * Henry Brinley Richards - "God Bless the Prince of Wales" (1863)
 * John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia)
 * Llewelyn (cantata) (1863)
 * The Bride of Neath Valley (cantata) (1866)

Sport

 * 1860 - The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.

Births

 * 1860
 * date unknown - Sir William Price (died 1938)
 * 1861
 * date unknown
 * John Edward Lloyd, historian (died 1947)
 * Thomas Mardy Rees, writer (died 1953)
 * 1862
 * date unknown - John Daniel Evans, Patagonia settler
 * 1863
 * January 17 - David Lloyd George, politician (died 1945)
 * March 3 - Arthur Machen, writer (died 1947)
 * 1864
 * January 8 - Prince Albert Victor, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1892)
 * October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)
 * date unknown - Charles Alfred Howell Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)
 * 1865
 * June 3 - Prince George, second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales and himself Prince of Wales 1901–1910 (later George V)
 * date unknown - William Brace, politician (died 1947)
 * 1866
 * October 12 - James Ramsay MacDonald, politician (died 1937)
 * date unknown - John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes, poet and hymn-writer (died 1944)
 * 1867
 * May 2 - Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (died 1926)
 * May 13 - Frank Brangwyn, artist (died 1956)
 * May 26 - Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1953)
 * September 29 - John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (died 1924)
 * 1869
 * September 6 - Walford Davies, composer (died 1944)
 * date unknown
 * Thomas Rees, theologian (died 1926)
 * Osbert Fynes-Clinton, dialectologist (died 1941)

Deaths

 * 1860
 * May 4 - William Ormsby-Gore, politician (born 1779)
 * July 17 - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (born 1789)
 * 1861
 * May 8 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (born 1830)
 * 1862
 * January 3 - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (born 1810)
 * date unknown - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary
 * 1863
 * April - George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (born 1806)
 * 1864
 * March 11 - Richard Roberts, engineer
 * August 1 - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)
 * date unknown
 * Evan Davies, missionary
 * Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible
 * 1865
 * February 21 - Stapleton Cotton, military leader (born 1773)
 * 1866
 * January 27 - John Gibson, sculptor (born 1790)
 * 1867
 * April 27 - Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist (born 1802)
 * May 23 - William Crawshay II, industrialist (born 1788)
 * 1868
 * June 22 - Owain Meirion, poet (born 1803)
 * date unknown - Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (born 1803)
 * 1869
 * March 31 - David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr), Nonconformist leader and author
 * date unknown - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet (born 1810)