Events
- January
- Henry Austin Bruce becomes MP for Renfrewshire.
- Timothy Richards Lewis goes to India to study cholera.
- May — The Western Mail is published for the first time.
- 19 May — Two days after John Young, the English manager of the Leeswood Green colliery, announces a pay cut, he is attacked by some of his workers.
- 2 June— Seven men are tried at Mold for attacking John Young. A riot breaks out as those convicted are being transported to the railway station; soldiers fire on the crowd, killing four people.
- 10 June — Three people are killed in a train derailment at Maesycwmmer in Glamorgan.
- 1 September — The Dyserth branch line is opened for goods traffic.
- 30 October — The first edition of the Welsh-language periodical, Y Goleuad, is published.
- Anti-Irish riots at Pontlottyn in the Rhymney Valley result in one death.
- John Hughes of Merthyr Tydfil buys land near the Sea of Azov, where he develops an ironworks and founds the city of Yuzovka (later Donetsk).
- Construction of the fort at St Catherine's Island, off Tenby.
- Prehistoric burial remains are discovered at Parc le Breos on the Gower Peninsula.
- Emmeline Lewis Lloyd attempts an ascent of the Matterhorn.
- John Owen of Tyn-llwyn is evicted from his farm for voting Tory.
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