1861 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1861 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- June - 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.
- July - Baner ac Amserau Cymru begins twice-weekly publication.
- 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.
- David Davies Llandinam builds the Oswestry and Newtown railway.
- John Dillwyn-Llewelyn marries Caroline Hicks Beach.
- 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
Births
- 1 January - John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr), journalist (died 1899)
- 2 January (in Oswestry) – William Henry Griffith Thomas, clergyman and academic (died 1924)
- 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 William Hughes, surgeon and founder of the Welsh Hospital in South Africa
- 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
- Reginald Brooks-King, archer (died 1936)
- William Stadden, rugby player (died 1906)
- John Williams, politician (died 1922)
Deaths
- 6 February - Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet, 84
- 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
- 26 September - Morris Davies (Meurig Ebrill), poet, 71
- 25 October - Sir James Graham, 2nd Baronet, former MP for Pembroke, 69
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