1857 in Wales

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

Incumbents

May 6 - Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails for Tennessee.
October 14 - Four people are killed in a railway accident near Pyle.
Opening of the 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 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.

February 7 - Windham Henry Wyndham-Quin, 5th Earl Dunraven (died 1952)
28 February - Charlie Newman, Wales rugby union captain (died 1922)
May 12 - Sarah Jacob, the "fasting girl" (died 1869)
June 28 - Sir Robert Jones, 1st Baronet, orthopaedic surgeon (died 1933)
July 1 - Martha Hughes Cannon, women's rights activist and politician in the USA (died 1932)
November 8 - Frank Purdon, Wales rugby union international
November 14 - John Thomas Rees, musician (died 1949)
December 2 - Sir Robert Armstrong-Jones, surgeon (died 1943)