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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