Events
- 10 January — The vessels Constancia and Primus attempt to pass through a lock at Newport Docks at the same time and a collision results. The lock is blocked and the vessels already in the dock are trapped for nearly two weeks. The resulting losses eventually culminate in the demise of the Newport Dock Company a year later.
- February - Charles Wilkins launches the English-language periodical Red Dragon in Cardiff.
- 11 February — Six miners are killed in an accident at the Lewis Merthyr Colliery.
- 3 March — Five miners are killed in an accident at the Henwaen Colliery, Blaina.
- 20 October — The steamer Clan MacDuff sinks off Holyhead, resulting in 32 deaths.
- 1 November — An Austrian barque, the Petroslava, is wrecked on Skokholm with the loss of 10 of its 11 crew members.
- Anti-Irish riots break out at Tredegar.
- Lager is brewed at Wrexham, for the first time in the UK.
- SA Brain & Company Ltd opens its brewery in Cardiff.
- St Catharine's Church, Baglan, is consecrated.
- The Welsh Charity School in Ashford, Surrey, becomes girls-only and changes its name to the Welsh Girls’ School.
- Slate workings in Cwm Llan on Snowdon are closed in 1882 because of the expense of transporting the slate to the sea at Porthmadog.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“This is certainly not the place for a discourse about what festivals are for. Discussions on this theme were plentiful during that phase of preparation and on the whole were fruitless. My experience is that discussion is fruitless. What sets forth and demonstrates is the sight of events in action, is living through these events and understanding them.”
—Doris Lessing (b. 1919)
“The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
—Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)