Events
- 24 February — In a mining accident at Pentre Colliery, Rhondda, 38 men are killed.
- 21 March — Henry Morton Stanley sets out for Africa to seek David Livingstone.
- June — Miners' strike in South Wales culminates in defeat for the union.
- 10 November — Stanley locates Livingstone in Tanzania, greeting him with the words, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
- Lewis Jones is appointed governor of Chubut Province by the government of Argentina.
- David Davies Llandinam constructs a railway from Caersws to the Van mines.
- Henry Hussey Vivian opens the White Rock lead treatment works in Swansea.
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“The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when one thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion.”
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