1877 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1877 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk
 * 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 – William Cornwallis-West
 * Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
 * 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, 4th Baron Kensington
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite


 * Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes
 * Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones


 * Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd

Events

 * 8 March – In a mining accident at Worcester Colliery, Swansea, seventeen men are killed.
 * 11 April – In a mining accident at Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda, five men are killed by flooding. Twenty-five of the rescue team are awarded the Albert Medal for bravery.
 * 10 July – Consecration of new Merthyr Synagogue, the oldest surviving synagogue building in Wales.
 * 1 August – Opening of new Llandudno Pier.
 * 15 August – Opening to passengers of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways from Dinas to Tryfan Junction and Bryngwyn.
 * 30 November – Opening of the new market hall at Builth Wells by Sir Joseph Bailey M.P.
 * unknown dates
 * Opening of Stepaside, Pembrokeshire village school (part of modern-day Stepaside Heritage Park).
 * Closure of lead mine at Loggerheads, Denbighshire.

Arts and literature

 * Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert.

New books

 * Richard Davies (Mynyddog) – Y Trydydd Cynnig
 * William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr

Music

 * Joseph Parry resigns from his position as Professor of Music at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.

Sport

 * Football
 * The Racecourse Ground at Wrexham hosts Wales' first ever home international match, making it the world's oldest international football stadium still to host international matches.
 * The Welsh Cup is inaugurated.
 * Rugby union
 * 8 November – Blaenavon RFC play their first game, against Abergavenny.

Births

 * 2 May – Sid Bevan, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1933)
 * 6 June (in Guernsey) – Herbert John Fleure, zoologist and geographer (died 1969)
 * 9 June – George Travers, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
 * 21 June – Elizabeth Mary Jones (Moelona), Welsh-language children's novelist (died 1953)
 * 1 July – Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player (died 1957)
 * 19 August – John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
 * 17 September – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (died 1928)
 * 26 September (in Wandsworth) – Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales)
 * 5 October – Lily Gower, croquet player (died 1959)
 * 27 October – David Harris Davies, Wales international rugby union player (died 1944)
 * 7 November – Maurice Parry, footballer (died 1935)
 * 27 November – Leigh Richmond Roose, football goalkeeper (killed in battle 1916)
 * 2 December – John Strand-Jones, Wales international rugby union player (died 1958)

Deaths

 * 9 January – Thomas Thomas, clergyman, 72
 * 24 June – Robert Dale Owen, Welsh-American politician, 75
 * 14 July – Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet, 44
 * 18 July – Thomas Richards, "father of Tasmanian journalism", 77
 * 27 July – John Frost, Chartist leader, 93
 * 5 August – Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet, 47
 * 17 October – Charles Williams, academic, 73?
 * 7 November – Calvert Jones, painter and pioneer photographer, 72
 * 13 December – John Griffith (journalist), journalist who wrote under the pseudonym Y Gohebydd, 56