Events
- January — South Wales Railway merges with the Great Western Railway.
- 5 May — Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare, makes an important speech on the subject of education in Wales. He is later appointed vice-president of the Committee of Council on Education.
- 2 June — Llangollen is linked to the rail network for the first time.
- 4 July — Sarah Edith Wynne, noted soprano, makes her London début.
- Guillermo Rawson, Interior Minister of Argentina, meets Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones to discuss the Welsh colonisation of Patagonia.
- The incomplete Moel Famau Jubilee Tower collapses in a storm.
- Completion of the railway between Merthyr Tydfil and Brecon.
- The Clogau mine begins producing gold.
- Llandudno lighthouse is erected by the Mersey Docks Harbour Board.
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