Events
- August - First publication of The Usk Gleaner and Monmouthshire Record.
- December - South Wales miners, led by William Abraham, come to agreement on a sliding scale of wages in relation to prices and profits.
- 4 December - In a mining accident at Old Pit, New Tredegar, 22 men are killed.
- 5 December - In a mining accident at Llan Colliery, Pentyrch, twelve men are killed.
- The first imports of North American wheat come through Cardiff.
- The United States Immigration and Naturalization Service recognises Welsh as a distinct nationality - the first official body ever to do so.
- Ordnance Survey publishes the first complete maps of Wales.
- David Davies Llandinam is elected treasurer of the University of Wales.
- Major eisteddfod held at Pwllheli. Future archdruid Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) is a leading adjudicator.
- Francis Wallace Grenfell takes part in the expedition which claims Griqualand West (site of the Kimberley diamond fields) for the UK.
- Bodnant Garden is begun by Baron Aberconway.
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