Events
- 5 January — The Festiniog Railway officially opens to passengers, the first narrow gauge railway in the British Isles to do so.
- 14 January — An American Confederate paddle steamer, Lelia, sinks off the north Wales coast, with the loss of eighteen lives.
- 1 February — The Vale of Neath Railway is amalgamated with the Great Western Railway.
- 14 April — Opening of the Royal Pier, Aberystwyth, built by Eugenius Birch at a cost of £13,600.
- May
- Opening of Talyllyn Railway.
- A branch of The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites Friendly Society is established and registered at Colwinston.
- 28 May — The Mimosa sets sail with emigrants for Patagonia.
- 3 July - Opening of Barmouth Junction on the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway.
- 28 July — The town of Puerto Madryn and the Patagonian colony is founded by Michael D. Jones.
- 29 November — Two men die when a coal train falls into the North Dock at Swansea.
- 1 December — Llandrindod Wells is linked to the rail network for the first time.
- The only outbreak of yellow fever ever to occur in Britain kills fifteen people in Swansea.
- Construction of Whitford Point Lighthouse on Gower, the only cast-iron lighthouse ever built in the UK.
- Francis Kilvert becomes curate of Clyro in Radnorshire.
- Sale of the Pwyllycrochan estate, leading to the development of Colwyn Bay.
- John Crichton-Stuart, Marquess of Bute, meets architect and designer William Burges.
- Robert Jones Derfel retires from the ministry and sets up a Welsh bookshop and press in Manchester.
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