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{{Year in Wales header|1860}}This article is about the particular significance of the year 1860 to Wales and its people. Incumbents- Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales — vacant
Events- 27 February — A paddle steamer, Nimrod, is wrecked off St David's Head, and 45 people are killed.
- 7 March — HMS Howe, the Royal Navy’s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line, is launched at Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.
- 3 August — Consecration of Marble Church, Bodelwyddan.
- 1 December — The sixth underground explosion in the Risca Black Vein Pit at Crosskeys in the Sirhowy Valley of Monmouthshire kills 142 coal miners.[1][2]
- Opening of the Gwili Valley railway.
- A statue of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey is added to the column built in his honour by Thomas Harrison earlier in the century.
- Four gun batteries are installed on Flat Holm.
- Discovery of Gwynfynydd Gold Mine gold mine at Dolgellau.
- Founding of the Hafod Copperworks.
- Big Pit at Blaenavon opened.
- Mosque founded in Cardiff Bay by Sheikh Abdullah Hakimi.
- Excavation of Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles.
- approx. date — Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey adopts the long form of its name.
Arts and literatureAwards- At the Denbigh eisteddfod, a decision is made to launch a national eisteddfod.
- An eisteddfod is held at Utica, New York.
New books- John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Hwyr
- Thomas Phillips — The Welsh Revival: Its Origin and Development
- William Rowlands — Dammeg y Mab Afradlon
Music- John Owen (Owain Alaw) — Gems of Welsh Melody (including the first Welsh lyric for March of the Men of Harlech, written by John Jones (Talhaiarn))
Sport- The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.
- Oswestry Town F.C. is founded.
Births- 21 February – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor (died 1952)
- 25 March – Jack Powell, footballer (died 1947
- 29 March – Edward Peake, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
- 14 April – Howell Elvet Lewis (Elved), poet and archdruid (died 1953)
- 19 April – William Penfro Rowlands, composer (died 1937)
- 12 May – Sir John Ballinger, librarian (died 1933)
- 24 May – Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, lawyer and politician (died 1926)
- 6 June – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet (died 1944)
- 30 July – Richard Summers, Wales rugby union international (died 1941)
- 6 September – George Florance Irby, 6th Baron Boston, landowner and scientist (died 1941)
- 25 September – Thomas Francis Roberts, academic (died 1919)
- 31 December – Horace Lyne, Wales international rugby player and WRU president (died 1949)
- date unknown
- James Colton, anarchist (died 1936)
- Sir William Price (died 1938)
Deaths- 26 January – Thomas Wood, politician, 82[3]
- 21 March – John Lloyd Davies, politician[4]
- 4 May – William Ormsby-Gore, politician, 81
- 17 July – Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse, 71[5]
- 13 November – David Dale Owen, geologist in the USA, 53
- 27 November – Richard Richards, politician, 73[6]
References1. ^{{cite web|title=The development of Risca|work=Risca Industrial History Museum & OHIHS|first=Tony|last=Jukes|url=http://www.riscamuseum.org.uk/risca.html|accessdate=2010-10-18}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=Risca Colliery|work=CoalHouse|publisher=BBC|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/coalhouse/sites/mines/pages/risca_colliery.shtml|year=2008|accessdate=2010-10-18}} 3. ^{{cite book|title=Thomas Wood, M.P., Parliamentary Representative for Brecknockshire, 1806-47|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=x8MqAQAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=Brecknock Museum Publication|page=31}} 4. ^{{cite web|title=John Lloyd Davies|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-LLO-1801|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|last=Williams|first=Griffith John|accessdate= 18 July 2017}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-ELI-1789|title=Davis, Elizabeth (1789-1860), Crimean nurse|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=13 March 2019}} 6. ^{{cite book|author=Nobody's Friends, London|title=The Club of "Nobody's Friends,": Since Its Foundation on 21 June 1800, to|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qsu99brmMngC|year=1885|page=41}}
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