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.
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“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
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—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)