1882 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1882 to Wales and its people.

1882
in
Wales
Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
See also:
1882 in
The United Kingdom
Scotland

Incumbents

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 The 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.
    • The Victory, a Bideford schooner carrying coal from Cardiff to Waterford, sinks near Ballyteique with the loss of all crew.[18]
  • 1 November – An Austrian barque, the Petroslava, is wrecked on Skokholm with the loss of 10 of its 11 crew members.
  • 16 November – The new Fishguard Lifeboat Station boat Sir Edward Perrott is launched 5 times and rescues 46 lives from 15 different vessels.[19]
  • Anti-Irish riots break out at Tredegar.
  • Lager is brewed at Wrexham, for the first time in the UK.
  • Brains Brewery opens 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.
  • Plymouth Ironworks at Merthyr Tydfil is closed.[20]
  • Slate workings in Cwm Llan on Snowdon are closed because of the expense of transporting the slate to a port.

Arts and literature

The Cambrian Academy of Art becomes the 'Royal Cambrian Academy of Art' after gaining patronage from Queen Victoria.

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Denbigh

  • Chair – No Winner[21]
  • Crown – Dafydd Rees Williams

New books

Music

    Sport

    Births

    Deaths

    See also

    References

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