1860 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1870s; 1880s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1860 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1860 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

27 February — A paddle steamer, Nimrod, is wrecked off St David's Head, and 45 people are killed.
7 March — HMS Howe, the Royal Navy’s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line, is launched at Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.
3 August — Consecration of Marble Church, Bodelwyddan.
1 December — The sixth underground explosion in the Risca Black Vein Pit at Crosskeys in the Sirhowy Valley of Monmouthshire kills 142 coal miners.^[1]^[2]
Opening of the Gwili Valley railway.
A statue of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey is added to the column built in his honour by Thomas Harrison earlier in the century.
Four gun batteries are installed on Flat Holm.
Discovery of Gwynfynydd Gold Mine gold mine at Dolgellau.
Founding of the Hafod Copperworks.
Big Pit at Blaenavon opened.
Mosque founded in Cardiff Bay by Sheikh Abdullah Hakimi.
Excavation of Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles.
approx. date — Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey adopts the long form of its name.

John Owen (Owain Alaw) — Gems of Welsh Melody (including the first Welsh lyric for March of the Men of Harlech, written by John Jones (Talhaiarn))

21 February – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor (died 1952)
25 March – Jack Powell, footballer (died 1947
29 March – Edward Peake, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
14 April – Howell Elvet Lewis (Elved), poet and archdruid (died 1953)
19 April – William Penfro Rowlands, composer (died 1937)
12 May – Sir John Ballinger, librarian (died 1933)
24 May – Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, lawyer and politician (died 1926)
6 June – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet (died 1944)
30 July – Richard Summers, Wales rugby union international (died 1941)
6 September – George Florance Irby, 6th Baron Boston, landowner and scientist (died 1941)
25 September – Thomas Francis Roberts, academic (died 1919)
31 December – Horace Lyne, Wales international rugby player and WRU president (died 1949)
date unknown
- James Colton, anarchist (died 1936)
- Sir William Price (died 1938)

↑ Jukes, Tony. "The development of Risca". Risca Industrial History Museum & OHIHS. Retrieved 2010-10-18.
↑ "Risca Colliery". CoalHouse. BBC. 2008. Retrieved 2010-10-18.

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