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This article is about the particular significance of the year '''1857''' to [[Wales]] and [[Welsh people|its people]].


==Incumbents==
==Incumbents==
*[[Prince of Wales]] - [[Edward VII of the United Kingdom|Edward Albert]], son of Queen [[Victoria of the United Kingdom]]
{{For|United Kingdom incumbents|1857 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents}}
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey]] – [[Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}</ref><ref name="Sainty">{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}</ref>
*[[Princess of Wales]] - ''vacant''
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire]] – [[John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Editorial|url=http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/4353246/ART15|access-date=17 January 2022|newspaper=Welshman|date=6 October 1865}}</ref><ref>{{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire]] – [[Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire]] – [[Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore]] (until 12 July);<ref name="PH 17-7-57 obit"/> [[Edward Pryse]] (from 14 September)<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas John Hughes|title=The Welsh magistracy, by Adfyfr|publisher=South Wales and Monmouthshire Liberal Federation Offices|year=1887|page=5}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire]] – [[John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor]]
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire]] – [[Robert Myddelton Biddulph (1805–1872)|Robert Myddelton Biddulph]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/myddelton-biddulph-robert-1805-1872|title=Myddelton Biddulph, Robert (1805-1872), of Chirk Castle, Denb. and 35 Grosvenor Place, Mdx.|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=5 December 2021}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire]] – [[Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/glynne-sir-stephen-1807-1874|title=Glynne, Sir Stephen Richard, 9th bt. (1807-1874), of Hawarden Castle, Flint|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=16 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan]] – [[Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/talbot-christopher-1803-1890|title=TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam.|website=History of Parliament Online|access-date=18 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire]] – [[Robert Davies Pryce]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire]] – Capel Hanbury Leigh<ref>{{cite book|author=Amy Audrey Locke|title=The Hanbury Family|publisher=Arthur L. Humphreys|year=1916|page=147}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire]] – [[Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley]]<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/hanbury-tracy-charles-1778-1858|title=Hanbury Tracy, Charles (1778–1858), of Toddington, Glos. and Gregynog, Mont.| publisher= History of Parliament Online|access-date = 2 July 2013}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire]] – [[Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet]]<ref>{{cite web |last1=Thorne |first1=R.G. |title=John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/owen-john-1776-861 |website=History of Parliament |access-date=27 March 2020}}</ref>
*[[Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire]] – [[John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=115}}</ref><ref name="Sainty"/>


*[[Bishop of Bangor]] – [[Christopher Bethell]]<ref>{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=292}}</ref><ref name="Fasti305">{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=305}}</ref>
==Events==
*[[Bishop of Llandaff]] – [[Alfred Ollivant (bishop)|Alfred Ollivant]]<ref>{{cite book|author1=Frederick Arthur Crisp|author2=Joseph Jackson Howard|title=Visitation of England and Wales|year=1898|page=15}}</ref><ref name="Fasti307"/>
*[[6 May]] - [[Samuel Roberts (writer)|Samuel Roberts (S. R.)]] sails for [[Tennessee]].
*[[Bishop of St Asaph]] – [[Thomas Vowler Short]]<ref>{{cite book|author=Nicholas Harris Nicolas|title=The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope|publisher=John Murray|year=1857|page=533}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}</ref><ref name="Fasti307"/>
*[[14 October]] - Four people are killed in a [[railway]] accident near [[Pyle]].
*[[Bishop of St Davids]] – [[Connop Thirlwall]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Old Yorkshire, volume 3|year=1882|page=90}}</ref><ref name="Fasti307">{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=307}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}</ref>
*Opening of the [[Crumlin, Caerphilly|Crumlin viaduct]], built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the [[Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway]].
*[[Thomas Gee]] launches the periodical ''Baner Cymru''.
*[[John Bowen (bishop)|John Bowen]] becomes Bishop of [[Sierra Leone]].
*[[William Owen Stanley]] becomes MP for Anglesey Boroughs.
*''The Newport Gazette'' is founded by William Nicholas Johns.
*Railway workers go on strike at [[Aberdare]].


==Arts and literature==
===Awards===


==Events==
[[File:Crumlin Viaduct. (3375269).jpg|thumb|350px|[[Crumlin Viaduct]]]]
*[[4 March]] — [[Thomas Gee]] launches the radical nonconformist newspaper ''Baner Cymru'' in [[Denbigh]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England)|title=The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iA4iAQAAIAAJ|year=2001|publisher=The Society|page=112}}</ref>
*[[24 March]] — [[1857 United Kingdom general election]], concludes. Anglesey antiquarian [[William Owen Stanley]] becomes [[Whigs (British political party)|Whig]] MP for the [[Beaumaris (UK Parliament constituency)|Beaumaris District of Boroughs]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Thomas Nicholas|title=Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iD4LAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48|year=1872|publisher=Longmans, Green, Reader|pages=48–}}</ref>
*[[6 May]] [[Samuel Roberts (writer)|Samuel Roberts (S. R.)]] sails for [[Tennessee]].
*[[1 June]] — Opening of the [[Crumlin Viaduct]], built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the [[Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway]].<ref>{{cite book|author=John Elliott|title=The Industrial Development of the Ebbw Valleys, 1780-1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aRjtAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1890-4|page=111}}</ref>
*[[10 August]] — [[John Bowen (bishop)|John Bowen]] is consecrated as Bishop of [[Sierra Leone]].
*[[13 August]] — Eugene Goddard crosses the [[Menai Strait]] in his [[gas balloon]] ''Aurora'' from [[Caernarfon Castle]] to [[Llanidan]].<ref>{{cite book|first=T. Meirion|last=Hughes|title=Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time|location=Talybont|publisher=Y Lolfa|year=2014|isbn=978-1-847-71930-0|chapter=Some Feat over a Century and a Half Ago|pages=77–81}}</ref>
*[[3 October]] — ''The Newport Gazette'' is founded by William Nicholas Johns.
*[[14 October]] Four people are killed in a [[railway]] accident near [[Pyle]].
*[[29 October]] — [[St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden]], badly damaged by [[arson]].
*Autumn — [[Aberdare Strike 1857-8]] against reductions in coal miners' pay begins.
*Railway workers go on strike at [[Aberdare]].{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}


==Arts and literature==
===New books===
===New books===
====English language====
*[[Owen Wynne Jones]] - ''Dafydd Llwyd''
*[[Richard Williams Morgan]] - ''The British Kymry or Britons of Cambria''
*[[Richard Williams Morgan]] ''The British Kymry or Britons of Cambria''<ref>{{cite book|author=Neil Evans|title=Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VrmXCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA84|date=17 February 2016|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-78661-9|pages=84}}</ref>

*[[Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri)]] - ''Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri''
====Welsh language====
*[[Owen Wynne Jones]] ''Dafydd Llwyd''
*[[Robert Parry (Robyn Ddu Eryri)]] — ''Teithiau a Barddoniaeth Robyn Ddu Eryri''<ref>{{cite book|author=National Library of Wales|title=Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=trq5AAAAIAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Council of the National Library of Wales}}</ref>


===Music===
===Music===
*[[John Ashton (musician)|John Ashton]] - "Trefeglwys" ([[hymn tune]])
*[[John Ashton (musician)|John Ashton]] "Trefeglwys" ([[hymn tune]])


==Births==
==Births==
*[[7 February]] - [[Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven]] (died 1952)
*[[2 February]] - [[Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet]], politician and ship-owner (died 1933)
*[[28 February]] - [[Charlie Newman]], Wales rugby union captain (died 1922)
*[[7 February]] [[Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven]] (died 1952)
*[[27 April]] - [[Alfred Cattell]], Wales international rugby player (died 1933)
*[[28 February]] [[Charlie Newman]], Wales rugby union captain (died 1922)
*[[12 May]] - [[Sarah Jacob]], the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
*[[27 April]] [[Alfred Cattell]], Wales international rugby player (died 1933)
*[[20 June]] - [[Dan Griffiths]], Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
*[[12 May]] [[Sarah Jacob]], the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
*[[28 June]] - [[Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet]], orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
*[[20 June]] [[Dan Griffiths (rugby union, born 1857)|Dan Griffiths]], Wales international rugby player (died 1936)
*[[1 July]] - [[Martha Hughes Cannon]], women's rights activist and politician in the USA (died 1932)
*[[28 June]] [[Robert Jones (surgeon)|Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet]], orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
*[[1 July]] — [[Martha Hughes Cannon]], women's rights activist and politician in the United States (died 1932)
*[[19 September]] - [[James Bridie (rugby player)|James Bridie]] was a Scottish-born rugby player who represented the Welsh international rugby team.
*[[8 November]] - [[Frank Purdon]], Wales rugby union international
*[[19 September]] [[James Bridie (rugby union)|James Bridie]], Scottish-born Wales international rugby union player (died 1893 in England)
*[[14 November]] - [[John Thomas Rees]], musician (died 1949)
*[[8 November]] [[Frank Purdon]], Wales rugby union international
*[[2 December]] - Sir [[Robert Armstrong-Jones]], surgeon (died 1943)
*[[14 November]] [[John Thomas Rees]], musician (died 1949)
*[[2 December]] — Sir [[Robert Armstrong-Jones]], surgeon (died 1943)
*[[Llewellyn Cadwaladr]], operatic tenor (died 1909)


==Deaths==
==Deaths==
*[[3 January]] — [[Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (second creation)]], 55
*[[10 February]] - [[David Thompson (explorer)|David Thompson]], explorer of Welsh parentage, 86
*[[23 January]] — [[Edward Anwyl (Wesleyan minister)|Edward Anwyl]], Wesleyan minister and teacher, 70<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-ANWY-EDW-1786|title=Anwyl, Edward (1786-1857), Wesleyan minister|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|year=1959|access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[29 March]] - [[Elijah Waring]], writer, ±69
*[[16 May]] - Sir [[William Lloyd (mountaineer)|William Lloyd]], soldier and mountaineer, 74
*[[10 February]] [[David Thompson (explorer)|David Thompson]], explorer of Welsh parentage, 86
*[[29 March]] — [[Elijah Waring]], writer, ±69<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-WARI-ELI-1788|title=Waring, Elijah (c.1788-1857) merchant, author and publisher|author=Griffith John Williams|year=1959|access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[12 August]] - [[William Daniel Conybeare]], dean of Llandaff, 70
*[[16 May]] — Sir [[William Lloyd (mountaineer)|William Lloyd]], soldier and mountaineer, 74<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s3-LLOY-WIL-1782|title=Lloyd, Sir William (1782-1857), soldier and one of the first Europeans to reach the peak of any Himalayan snow-capped mountain|author=Ioan Bowen Rees|year=2001|access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref>
*[[16 August]] - [[John Jones (Talysarn)]], leading non-conformist minister, 61
*[[13 June]] — [[Daniel Rees (priest)|Daniel Rees]], hymn-writer, 64<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-REES-DAN-1793|title=Rees, Daniel (1793&ndash;1857), cleric and hymnwriter|last=Roberts|first=Gomer Morgan|access-date=20 August 2008}}</ref>
*[[12 July]] — [[Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore]], Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire, 64<ref name="PH 17-7-57 obit">{{cite news|title=Family Notices|url=http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3054851/3054854/20|accessdate=23 January 2018|agency=Pembrokeshire Herald|date=17 July 1857|page=3}}</ref>
*[[12 August]] [[William Daniel Conybeare]], dean of Llandaff, 70
*[[16 August]] — [[John Jones, Talysarn]], leading non-conformist minister, 61<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-JOH-1796|title=Jones, John (Talysarn)|author=Gwilym Arthur Edwards|year=1959|access-date=25 January 2022}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[1857 in Ireland]]

==References==
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1857 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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Events

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Arts and literature

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English language

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Welsh language

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Music

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Births

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  1. ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
  2. ^ a b J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
  3. ^ Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
  4. ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
  5. ^ "Editorial". Welshman. 6 October 1865. Retrieved 17 January 2022.
  6. ^ Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
  7. ^ Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
  8. ^ a b "Family Notices". Pembrokeshire Herald. 17 July 1857. p. 3. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
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  19. ^ Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
  20. ^ Frederick Arthur Crisp; Joseph Jackson Howard (1898). Visitation of England and Wales. p. 15.
  21. ^ a b c Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 307.
  22. ^ Nicholas Harris Nicolas (1857). The historic peerage of England: Revised, corrected, and continued ... by William Courthope. John Murray. p. 533.
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  33. ^ Griffith John Williams (1959). "Waring, Elijah (c.1788-1857) merchant, author and publisher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  34. ^ Ioan Bowen Rees (2001). "Lloyd, Sir William (1782-1857), soldier and one of the first Europeans to reach the peak of any Himalayan snow-capped mountain". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
  35. ^ Roberts, Gomer Morgan. "Rees, Daniel (1793–1857), cleric and hymnwriter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 20 August 2008.
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