1873 in Wales

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley

• 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 – William Cornwallis-West

• 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 – 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 – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite

• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell

• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant

• Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes

• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

Events

• 1 March – The sailing ship Chacabuco sinks off the Great Orme with the loss of 24 lives.
• 18 March – Work begins on construction of the Severn Tunnel.
• 30 March – The Glyn Valley Tramway opens as a horse-worked line to carry slate and other minerals from Glyn Ceiriog to Chirk.
• 19 August – The Holyhead Breakwater (the longest in the world) is officially opened by Albert Edward, Prince of Wales. having taken 28 years to construct.
• 9 October – The first recorded sheepdog trial in the UK takes place at Bala.
• 2 December – In a mining accident at Hafod Colliery, Rhiwabon, five men are killed.
• date unknown – Construction of:
  • Tŵr Mawr Lighthouse on Ynys Llanddwyn.
  • Buckley Arms hotel, Dinas Mawddwy, in reinforced concrete.

Arts and literature

New books

• Rhoda Broughton – Nancy
• Robert Elis (Cynddelw) – Manion Hynafiaethol
• Ebenezer Thomas – Gweithiau Barddonol Eben Fardd (posthumously published)

Music

• Henry Brinley Richards – Songs of Wales
• Richard Davies (Mynyddog) writes the song "Rheolau yr Aelwyd", the basis of "Sosban Fach".

Sport

• December – Major Walter Wingfield of Nantclwyd Hall at Llanelidan designs a game for the amusement of his visitors. Wingfield soon patents nets for the game of lawn tennis, which he calls "sphairistike".

Births

• 7 January – Christopher Williams, artist (died 1934)
• 16 January – Ivor Guest, 1st Viscount Wimborne, politician (died 1939)
• 7 April
  • John Dyfnallt Owen, poet and Archdruid (died 1956)
  • Charles Butt Stanton, politician (died 1946)
• 23 April – Sir Robert Thomas, 1st Baronet, politician (died 1951)
• 1 May – Harry Evans, musician (died 1914)
• 22 May – (Brynach) (died 1923)
• 5 June – Ben Davies, Wales international rugby player (died 1930)
• 14 October – Sam Livesey, actor (died 1936)
• date unknown – Arthur Tysilio Johnson, plantsman and author of The Perfidious Welshman (died 1956)

Deaths

• January – John Emlyn Jones, poet, 54
• 27 January – Josiah Thomas Jones, publisher, 73
• 20 February – (at Launceston, Tasmania) William Jones, Chartist leader, 64
• 29 March – David Jones, merchant in Australia, 80
• 17 May – Lord William Paget, soldier and politician, 70
• 9 October – John Evan Thomas, sculptor, 63
• 31 October – William Ambrose (Emrys), poet, 60
• 10 November – Maria Jane Williams, musician, 78

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