1860s in Wales

none December 2025 1850s | 1870s | Other years in Wales Other events of the decade 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 Arts and literature 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 timehttps://museum.wales/stfagans/eisteddfod/chair-and-crown/ Chair and Crown Museum Wales 15 December 2025 1868 - Ruthin - The Eisteddfod Council is disbanded 1869 - Holywell New books R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan (1864)John Sutherland The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction Taylor & Francis 2014 9781317863335 127 George Borrow - Wild Wales (1862)Prys Morgan, "Early Victorian Wales and its crisis of identity" in Brockliss L. W. B. A union of multiple identities: the British Isles, c. 1750-c. 1850 Manchester University Press Manchester, UK 1997 9780719050466 93 Rhoda Broughton - Cometh Up as a Flower (1867)Adrienne E. Gavin Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton British Women's Writing from Brontë to Bloomsbury, Volume 2: 1860s and 1870s Springer International Publishing 2020 9783030385286 123-6 Richard Davies (Mynyddog) - Caneuon Mynyddog (1866)s-DAVI-RIC-1833 Davies, Richard (Mynyddog; 1833-1877), poet, singer, and eisteddfod conductor Thomas Hughes Jones 15 December 2025 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)s-RICH-BRI-1819 Richards, Henry Brinley (1819-1885), musician Robert David Griffith 13 December 2025 John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia)s-THOM-JOH-1826 Thomas, John Pencerdd Gwalia (1826-1913), musician 14 December 2025 Llewelyn (cantata) (1863) The Bride of Neath Valley (cantata) (1866) Sport 1860 - The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.https://www.abergavennychronicle.com/sport/remembering-when-bowlers-didnt-wear-whites-812504 Remembering when bowlers didn't wear whites.... 16 July 2025 Abergavenny Chronicle 14 December 2025 References