1867 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
 * 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 – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (until 27 April); Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort (from 21 May)
 * 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
 * Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

Events

 * 3 June – The opening of the Anglesey Central Railway to passenger traffic links Amlwch to the rail network for the first time.
 * 19 August – The Victoria pier at Rhyl, built at a cost of £23,000, opens to the public.
 * 2 September – The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.
 * 30 September – Mawddwy Railway opens.
 * 10 October – Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary opens to rail traffic, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.
 * 26–27 October – Barque Earl of Chester is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of at least 17 lives.
 * 8 November – 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
 * date unknown
 * Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
 * The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.

Awards

 * At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.

New books

 * Rhoda Broughton – Cometh Up as a Flower
 * Edward Hamer – The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes
 * Jabez Edmund Jenkins – Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau
 * Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan - Penhow Castle
 * William Thomas (Islwyn) – Caniadau
 * Alfred Russel Wallace – The Malay Archipelago
 * Charles Wilkins – The History of Merthyr Tydfil

Music

 * David Roberts (Alawydd) – Llyfr y Psalmau

Sport

 * Boxing – The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published.

Births

 * 10 March
 * Sir William James Thomas, 1st baronet, philanthropist, one of the Thomas baronets of Yapton (d. 1945)
 * William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922)
 * 10 April – Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, peer (d. 1934)
 * 2 May – Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926)
 * 13 May – Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)
 * 15 May – Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
 * 21 May – John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)
 * 26 May – Mary of Teck, member of the British royal family, Princess of Wales 1901–1910 (d. 1953)
 * 29 September – John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)
 * 6 October – Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player
 * 12 October – Lyn Harding, actor (d. 1952)
 * 2 November – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899)
 * 28 November – James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944)
 * 18 December – David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East (d. 1933)
 * date unknown
 * Mia Arnesby Brown, born Mia Sarah H. Edwards, painter of children's portraits (d. 1931)
 * Fred Hutchinson, rugby player (d. 1941)

Deaths

 * 15 February – Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82
 * 18 February – Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48
 * 27 April – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64
 * 26 May – Thomas Phillips, politician and businessman, 65/66
 * 4 August – William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79
 * 9 September – John Propert, physician, 74
 * 12 September – Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67
 * 16 November – Thomas Aubrey, Methodist minister, 59
 * 1 December – William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74