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Incumbents

1 March – Llandovery College opens in the building known as the "Depot".
1 May – Opening for Chester and Holyhead Railway traffic of the first tube of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.^[1]
1 August – Opening of an isolated section of the Chester and Holyhead Railway across Anglesey from Llanfair to Holyhead.^[1]
24 August – The American barque Ocean Monarch catches fire off Colwyn Bay, with the loss of 178 lives.
24 October – Trinity College, Carmarthen is established (as the South Wales and Monmouthshire Training College), to train teachers for the Church of England.
14 November – Opening of the North Wales County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (North Wales Hospital), Denbigh.
The new Llandeilo Bridge is completed, with a span of 145 feet (44 m) over the River Towy.
Michael D. Jones becomes a minister in Cincinnati, Ohio.

23 January – Daniel James, bardic poet and lyricist of Calon Lân (died 1920)
12 February – Beriah Gwynfe Evans, journalist and dramatist (died 1927)
18 September – Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)
5 October – Sir John Purser Griffiths, civil engineer (died 1938)
2 November – Alfred Edwards, first Archbishop of Wales (died 1917)
30 December – David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)
Charles Ashton police officer, literary historian and bibliophile (suicide 1899)

17 January – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 63 (accidentally shot by his son)
18 March – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff, 54
27 March – William Ellis Jones, poet, 52
2 April – Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquary, 64
7 November – Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian, 61

1 2 Baughan, Peter E. (1972). The Chester & Holyhead Railway. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5617-8.

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