1861 in Wales

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor (from 26 April)
• 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 – Robert Davies Pryce
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh (until 28 September);Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (from 9 November)
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Thomas Hanbury-Tracy, 2nd Baron Sudeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet (until 6 February); William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington (from 28 April)
• 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

• 30 May - In a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Richard Grosvenor becomes MP for Flintshire, holding it on behalf of the Liberals.
• 10 June - The Oswestry and Newtown Railway is completed throughout by opening of the section between Abermule and Newtown, giving through rail communication from England to Llanidloes.
• July - Baner ac Amserau Cymru begins twice-weekly publication.
• date unknown
  • Japanese knotweed is recorded at Maesteg - the first record of it growing wild in the UK.
  • Excavation of Long Hole Cave in Glamorgan reveals prehistoric flint artefacts.
  • Pryce Pryce-Jones starts his mail order company in Newtown, Montgomeryshire.
  • John Dillwyn-Llewelyn marries Caroline, daughter of Sir Michael Hicks Beach, 8th Baronet.
  • Griffith John becomes the first Christian missionary to penetrate into central China.

Arts and literature

Awards

• 20–22 August - The first National Eisteddfod of Wales is held at Aberdare. The chair is won by Lewis William Lewis.

New books

• Autobiography and Correspondence of Mrs. Delaney, ed. Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover
• Griffith Jones (Glan Menai) - Hywel Wyn
• John Jones (Vulcan) - Athrawiaeth yr Iawn
• David Owen (Brutus) - Cofiant y Diweddar Barch. Thomas Williams
• Thomas Rees - History of Protestant Nonconformity in Wales: From Its Rise to the Present Time
• William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) - Emmanuel
• Jane Williams (Ysgafell) - The Literary Women of England
• Robert Williams (Trebor Mai) - Fy Noswyl

Music

• Hugh Jerman - Deus Misereatur

Sport

• Cricket
  • 18 July - South Wales Cricket Club defeat MCC at Lord's.

Births

• 1 January - John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr), journalist (died 1899)
• 2 January (in Oswestry) - William Henry Griffith Thomas, clergyman and academic (died 1924)
• 28 February - Jessie Penn-Lewis, evangelist (died 1927)
• 22 March - Dick Kedzlie, Wales international rugby player (died 1920)
• 7 April - Clara Novello Davies, singer (died 1943)
• 5 May - John Edward Lloyd, historian (died 1947)
• 31 July at Garneddwen - Alfred W. Hughes, surgeon and founder of the Welsh Hospital in South Africa
• 27 August - Reginald Brooks-King, archer (died 1936)
• 10 September - Sir John Lynn-Thomas, surgeon (died 1939)
• 19 September - Evan Roberts, Wales international rugby player (died 1927)
• 26 October - Richard Griffith (Carneddog), writer (died 1947)
• 28 December - David Gwynn, Wales international rugby player (died 1897)
• date unknown
  • William Stadden, rugby player (died 1906)
  • John Williams, politician (died 1922)

Deaths

• 6 February - Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet, 84
• 20 April - David Pugh, merchant, landowner and politician,
• 8 May - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician, 31
• 17 May - Ellis Owen Ellis, artist, 48?
• 2 August - Sidney Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Lea, statesman, 50
• 5 September - William Addams Williams, lawyer, landowner and politician, 74
• 26 September - Morris Davies (Meurig Ebrill), poet, 71
• 25 October - Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet, former MP for Pembroke, 69

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