Events
- 5 January — In a mining accident at Blackwood Colliery, five men are killed.
- 2 March — In a mining accident at Victoria Colliery, Ebbw Vale, nineteen men are killed.
- 18 June — A derailment occurred in the Pencader Tunnel on the Carmarthen & Cardigan Railway
- 1 August - Minffordd railway station is opened.
- University of Wales, Aberystwyth, is founded, with 26 students; Thomas Charles Edwards is its first principal.
- Stocks are used on the last recorded occasion in the UK, at Adpar in Cardiganshire, when a man is imprisoned in them for drunkenness.
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