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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1887 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – Alexandra
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd
Events
- 18 February – 39 miners are killed in an accident at Standard Colliery, Ynyshir.
- June – The Riot Act is read at Mochdre in the Vale of Clwyd at the height of a "Tithe War".
- 24 August – Roath Dock opened in Cardiff Docks; first sod of Roath Park dug.[1]
- November – The Helvetia wrecked off Worms Head, Rhossili (remains can still be seen at low tide).
- New Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral completed.
- The Turner House Gallery, Penarth, is built to house the art collection of Major James Pyke Thompson.
- Opening of Wrexham School of Science and Art, predecessor of Wrexham Glyndŵr University.
- Lewis Llewelyn Dillwyn and Stuart Rendel affirm the Welsh Liberal Party's support of Irish Home Rule.[2]
- Richard John Lloyd Price establishes a Welsh whisky distillery on his Rhiwlas estate at Frongoch.[3]
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at London
- Chair – Robert Arthur Williams, "Y Frenhines Victoria"[4]
- Crown – John Cadfan Davies
New books
- Amy Dillwyn – Jill and Jack
- Daniel Silvan Evans – Dictionary of the Welsh Language (Geiriadur Cymraeg)
Music
- John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia) – Cambria’s Homage to our Empress Queen
Sport
- Football
- Chirk win the Welsh Cup for the first time.
- Knighton Town F.C. is founded.
- Rugby union
- Ammanford RFC, Caerphilly RFC, Mumbles RFC, Newport RFC, Pontyclun RFC and Taffs Well RFC are established.
- Wales play their first international in Llanelli; though the original venue of Stradey Park is moved to a local cricket pitch due to a frozen pitch.
Births
- 13 January – Hedd Wyn, poet (died 1917)
- 27 February – James Dickson Innes, landscape painter (died 1914)
- 23 March – Percy Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1969)
- 19 April – Bertrand Turnbull, Olympic hockey player (died 1943)
- 23 April – Len Trump, Wales international rugby player (died 1948)
- 13 July – Elizabeth Watkin-Jones, children's author (died 1966)
- 21 September – T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, author and academic (died 1975)
- 11 October – William Davies, national librarian (died 1952)
- 29 December – Jack Wetter, Wales international rugby union captain (died 1967)
- Date unknown
- Bessie Jones, singer (died 1974)
- Artie Moore, wireless operator (died 1949)
Deaths
- 25 January – Rowland Prichard, musician, 76[5]
- 16 February – Richard Owen, preacher, 47[6]
- 24 March – William Lucas Collins, priest and writer, 71[7]
- 11 April – Samuel Bowen, Independent minister, 87[8]
- 23 April – John Ceiriog Hughes, poet, 54[9]
- 3 May – Robert John Hussey Vivian, infantry officer, illegitimate member of the Vivian family, 84/5[10]
- 28 May – Dan Isaac Davies, educationist, 48[11]
- 19 July – Lewis Edwards, educationist, 77
- 1 August – Hugh Cholmondeley, 2nd Baron Delamere, politician, 75[12]
- 11 August – Sir Richard Green-Price, 1st Baronet, politician, 83
- 7 November – Joshua T. Owen, Welsh-born educator, politician, and soldier in the Union army during the American Civil War, 66
References
- ^ "Opening of the Roath Dock". Cardiff Times. 27 August 1887. p. 6. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
- ^ "Dillwyn". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 December 2017.
- ^ Winn, Christopher (2007). I Never Knew That About Wales. London: Ebury. ISBN 978-0-09-191858-3.
- ^ "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "Prichard, Rowland Huw (1812-1887), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ Richard Thomas. "Owen, Richard (1839-1887), revivalist, Calvinistic Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- ^ University of Oxford (1888). Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886. Parker and Company. p. 280.
- ^ Richard Griffith Owen. "Bowen, Samuel (1799-1887), Macclesfield, Independent minister and teacher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ David Gwenallt Jones. "Hughes, John (Ceiriog; 1832-1887), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 November 2020.
- ^ "Obituary". The Illustrated London News. Illustrated London News & Sketch Limited. 21 May 1887. p. 580. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- ^ "DAVIES, DAN ISAAC (1839 - 1887), a pioneer of the teaching of Welsh in schools | Dictionary of Welsh Biography". biography.wales. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
- ^ Michael Stenton (1976). Who's who of British members of Parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons based on annual volumes of Dod's Parliamentary companion and other sources. The Harvester Press. p. 76. ISBN 978-0-85527-219-7.