This article is about the particular significance of the year 1871 to Wales and its people .
Incumbents Events 24 February – In a mining accident at Pentre Colliery, Rhondda , 38 men are killed.[1] 21 March – Welsh-born journalist Henry Morton Stanley sets out for Africa to seek missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone. June – Miners' strike in South Wales culminates in defeat for the union. 14 August – The Van Railway, built by David Davies Llandinam , opens to carry traffic from the Van lead mines to Caersws . 10 November – Stanley locates Livingstone in Ujiji , near Lake Tanganyika ,[2] date unknown Arts and literature Awards Evan Jones (Gurnos) wins a bardic chair at Ystradyfodwg. New books W. R. Ambrose – Hynafiaethau, Cofiannau a Hanes Presennol Nant Nantlle, y Traethawd Buddugol yn Eisteddfod Gadeiriol Pen-y-groes Robert Fowler, MD – A Complete History of the Case of the Welsh Fasting-Girl James Kenward – Ab Ithel Music Sport Births 5 January – Percy Lloyd, Wales national rugby player (died 1959) 23 February – Jack Evans, Wales national rugby player (died 1924) 2 March – Billy Bancroft, sportsman (died 1959) 28 March – Silyn Roberts , Socialist and pacifist writer (died 1930) 1 April - Dai St. John, heavyweight boxer (died 1899) 6 April – Prince Alexander John of Wales , youngest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1871) 12 April – Ellis William Davies, politician (died 1939) 15 April – John Humphreys Davies, writer (died 1926) 11 May – George Howells, academic and writer (died 1955) 6 June – Evan Lloyd, Wales international rugby player (died 1951) 14 June – David Nicholl, rugby player (died 1918) July - Owen Jones, footballer (died 1955) 2 July – Sir Evan Williams, 1st Baronet, industrialist (died 1959) 3 July – W. H. Davies , poet (died 1940) 13 August – Jack Elliott, Wales international rugby player (died 1938) 21 September – Alfred Brice, Wales international rugby player (died 1938) 1 October – Sir Lewis Lougher, industrialist and politician (died 1955) 10 October – Thomas Gwynn Jones , poet (died 1949) 3 November – Owen Badger, Wales national rugby player (died 1939) 27 November – Robert Evans (Cybi), writer (died 1956) 29 November (in England) – Ruth Herbert Lewis, social reformer and collector of Welsh folk songs (died 1946 )[5] 1 December – Bert Dauncey, Wales international rugby player (died 1955) 3 December – Sir Percy Emerson Watkins, civil servant (died 1946) date unknown William Jenkins, politician (died 1944) Howard Passadoro, footballer (died 1921) Thomas Mardy Rees, historian and author (died 1953) Deaths 19 January – Thomas Jeremy Griffiths, minister, hymn-writer and teacher 30 January – Edward Howell, US politician of Welsh descent, 78 February – Robert Roberts, musician, 30[6] 23 July – Arthur James Johnes, judge, 62[7] 2 August – David James (Dewi o Ddyfed), writer (born 1803) 6 October – Edwin Wyndham-Quin, 3rd Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl , 59[8] References ^ Congressional Serial Set ^ Penguin Pocket On This Day . Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0 .^ Reference Wales 978-0-7083-1234-6 .^ Stephen J. Lavender (1981). New Land for Old: The Environmental Renaissance of the Lower Swansea Valley 978-0-85274-386-7 . ^ Evan David Jones. "Lewis, Lady Ruth (1871-1946), a pioneering collector of Welsh folk-songs, and advocate of educational, religious, temperance and philanthropic bodies" . Welsh Biography Online . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 November 2020 . ^ Robert David Griffith. "Roberts, Robert (1840-1871), musician" . Dictionary of Welsh Biography . National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 March 2019 . ^ public domain : Thomas, Daniel Lleufer (1892). "Johnes, Arthur James". In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography 30 . London: Smith, Elder & Co. ^ Edmund Burke (1872). The Annual Register of World Events: A Review of the Year This article is copied from an
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