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{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2011}}{{Year in Wales header|1867}}This article is about the particular significance of the year 1867 to Wales and its people. Incumbents- Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales — Alexandra
Events- 3 June[1]
- Barmouth Bridge across the Mawddach estuary is completed, linking Barmouth to the rail network for the first time.
- Amlwch is linked to the rail network for the first time.
- 2 September — The Carnarvonshire Railway opens throughout, connecting Carnarvon and Portmadoc.[1]
- 27 October — A sailing ship, the Earl of Chester, is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of 14 lives.
- 8 November — 178 miners are killed in an accident at Ferndale Colliery, Rhondda.
- John Graham Chambers revises the Marquess of Queensberry rules for boxing.
- Celtic Congress held at Saint-Brieuc in Brittany.
- The Bronze Age cairns at Llanmadoc Hill are excavated and finds recorded.
- Rhyl pier is built, at a cost of £23,000.
Arts and literatureAwards- At the National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Carmarthen, a crown is presented for the first time.
New books- Rhoda Broughton — Cometh Up as a Flower[2]
- Edward Hamer — The Chartist Outbreak at Llanidloes
- Jabez Edmund Jenkins — Egin Awen, yn cynnwys awdlau, cywyddau
- Charles Octavius Swinnerton Morgan - Penhow Castle
- William Thomas (Islwyn) — Caniadau
- Alfred Russel Wallace — The Malay Archipelago
- Charles Wilkins — The History of Merthyr Tydfil
Music- David Roberts (Alawydd) — Llyfr y Psalmau
Sport- Boxing — The "Marquess of Queensberry rules", formulated by John Graham Chambers, are published.
Births- 10 March
- Sir William James Thomas, Baronet, philanthropist (d. 1945)
- William Llewelyn Williams, politician (d. 1922)
- 10 April — Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, peer (d. 1934)
- 2 May — Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (d. 1926)
- 13 May — Frank Brangwyn, artist (d. 1956)
- 15 May — Sir Henry Stuart Jones, academic (d. 1939)
- 21 May — John Thomas Job, poet (d. 1938)
- 26 May — Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901–1910 (d. 1953)
- 29 September — John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (d. 1924)
- 6 October — Rosser Evans, Wales international rugby player
- 12 October — Lyn Harding, actor (d. 1952)
- 2 November — Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer (d. 1899)
- 28 November — James Richard Atkin, judge (born in Australia) (d. 1944)
- 18 December — David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East (d. 1933)
- date unknown
- Mia Arnesby Brown, born Mia Sarah H. Edwards, painter of children's portraits (d. 1931)
- Fred Hutchinson, rugby player (d. 1941)
Deaths- 15 February — Walter Coffin, industrialist, 82
- 18 February — Edward Roberts (Iorwerth Glan Aled), poet, 48
- 27 April — Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist, 64
- 4 August — William Crawshay II, industrialist, 79
- 12 September — Robert Fulke Greville, landowner and politician, 67
- 1 December — William Thomas, Guardian of Aborigines in Australia, 74
References1. ^1 {{cite book|first=Michael|last=Quick|title=Railway Passenger Stations in Great Britain: a Chronology|location=Oxford|edition=4th|publisher=Railway and Canal Historical Society|year=2009|isbn=978-0-901461-57-5}} 2. ^{{cite book|first=Q. D.|last=Leavis|authorlink=Q. D. Leavis|title=Fiction and the Reading Public|edition=2nd|location=London|publisher=Chatto & Windus|year=1965}}
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