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{{Year in Wales header|1878}}This article is about the particular significance of the year 1878 to Wales and its people. Incumbents- Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales — Alexandra
Events- March
- The 'basic' process, enabling the use of phosphoric iron ore in steelmaking, developed at the failing Blaenavon Ironworks by Percy Gilchrist and Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, is first made public.[1]
- The Swansea Improvements and Tramway Company SITC) opens a street tramway from Gower Street, Swansea, to join up with the Oystermouth Railway.[2]
- 17 July — SITC is forced by legal action to return to horse-drawn trams after experimenting with steam locomotives.[3]
- 11 September — In a mining accident at the Prince of Wales Colliery, Abercarn, 268 men are killed.[4]
- Founding of Dr Williams School for Girls at Dolgellau.[5]
- Opening of Marine Drive around the Great Orme at Llandudno.
- A passenger ferry service is established between Bangor and Porthaethwy on the Menai Strait.
- Industrialist John Corbett buys Ynysymaengwyn.
- The prison system in Wales is nationalised and brought under centralised government control.[6]
- Nanteos Cup first exhibited.
Arts and literatureNew books- Daniel Silvan Evans — Celtic Remains
- William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) — Llythyrau 'Rhen Ffarmwr
Music- John Owen (Owain Alaw) — Jeremiah (oratorio)
Sport- Football — The Welsh Cup competition takes place for the first time, and is won by Wrexham.
Births- 4 January — Augustus John, painter (died 1961)
- 30 January — Reg Skrimshire, Wales and British Lions rugby union player (died 1963)
- 24 February — Lou Phillips, Wales international rugby player (killed in action 1916)
- 3 March — Edward Thomas, poet (died 1917)
- 12 March — Mary Sophia Allen, women's rights activist (died 1964)
- 15 March — Thomas Richards, historian and librarian (died 1962)
- 21 March — Edwin Thomas Maynard, Wales international rugby player (died 1961)
- 16 April — Owen Thomas Jones, geologist (died 1967)
- 26 May — Abel J. Jones, writer (died 1949)
- 5 June — Billy O'Neill, Wales national rugby player (died 1955)
- 8 June — Evan Roberts, religious revivalist (died 1951)
- 20 June — Seymour Farmer, politician in Canada (died 1951)
- 28 June — Evan Roberts, preacher (died 1951)
- 1 July — Billy Trew, rugby player and Welsh Triple Crown winning captain (died 1926)
- 27 August — Edgar Rees Jones, lawyer and politician (died 1962)
- 28 October — Charles Benjamin Redrup, aeronautical engineer (died 1961)
- 8 November — Dorothea Bate, palaeontologist (died 1951)
- 31 December — Caradoc Evans, writer (died 1945)
- date unknown — Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan), Welsh language short story writer (died 1919)
Deaths- 25 February — Townsend Harris, Welsh-descended American diplomat, 73[7]
- 30 March — Peter Maurice, priest and writer, 74[8]
- 4 July — William Roos, Welsh artist and engraver, 70[9]
- 13 August — Francis Rice, 5th Baron Dynevor, 74[10]
- 30 September — Evan James, poet, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem, 69
- 18 November — John Jones (Mathetes), clergyman and writer, 57
- 20 November — William Thomas (Islwyn), poet, 46[11]
- 25 November — Llewelyn Lewellin, clergyman and academic, 80
- 13 December — David Charles, secretary of the University for Wales movement, 56
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2011}}References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-THOM-GIL-1850|first=William Llewelyn|last=Davies|title=Thomas, Sidney Gilchrist|work=Welsh Biography Online|year=2009|accessdate=2012-11-09}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=The Tramway Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SlpUAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Light Railway Transport League|page=97}}
3. ^{{cite book|title=The Tramway Review|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SlpUAAAAMAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Light Railway Transport League|page=100}}
4. ^{{cite book|author=United States Department of State|title=Commercial Relations of the United States with Foreign Countries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cjZJAQAAIAAJ|year=1897|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=593}}
5. ^{{cite book|author=W. Gareth Evans|title=Education and Female Emancipation: The Welsh Experience, 1847-1914|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z-ueAAAAMAAJ|date=1 January 1990|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1079-3|page=75}}
6. ^{{cite book|last=Davies|first=John|author2=Jenkins, Nigel|title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales|year=2008|publisher=University of Wales Press|location=Cardiff|isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6}}
7. ^{{cite book|author=David Shavit|title=The United States in Asia: A Historical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IWdZTaJdc6UC&pg=PA218|year=1990|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-26788-8|pages=218}}
8. ^{{cite book|author=Thomas Mardy Rees|title=Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXM_AQAAMAAJ|year=1908|publisher=Herald Office|page=353}}
9. ^{{cite book|author=Thomas Mardy Rees|title=Welsh Painters, Engravers, Sculptors (1527-1911)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n5tDAQAAMAAJ|year=1912|publisher=Welsh Publishing Company|page=125}}
10. ^{{cite book|title=The Illustrated London News|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fptQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA167|year=1878|publisher=William Little|pages=167}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-THOM-WIL-1832|title=THOMAS, WILLIAM (Islwyn; 1832-1878), Calvinistic Methodist minister, and poet|author=David Gwenallt Jones|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=6 March 2019}}
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