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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