Events
- 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.
- 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.
- approx. date — Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey adopts the long form of its name.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.”
—Salman Rushdie (b. 1948)
“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)