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{{Year in Wales header|1886}}This article is about the particular significance of the year 1886 to Wales and its people. Incumbents- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – Alexandra
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd
Events- 1 September – The Great Western Railway opens the Severn Tunnel to regular goods and mineral traffic (and to passengers on 1 December).
- September – Opening of the Llandudno Pier Pavilion Theatre.
- 15 October
- 20 people are drowned when the sailing ship Malleny is wrecked on Tusker Rocks, Porthcawl.
- 18 people are drowned when the sailing ship Teviotdale is wrecked on Cefn Sidan Sands in Carmarthenshire.
- November
- Serious flooding in Aberystwyth.
- The keeper of the Mumbles lighthouse is swept out to sea and drowned.
- The rivers Mawddach, Dee and Taff all flood.
- Cantref Reservoir on the Taff Fawr is completed.
- Opening of the Cardiff Stock Exchange.
- Cymru Fydd is founded by the Liberal Party to further the cause of home rule.
- The Welsh Land League is founded.
- Beginning of the tithe revolt in Denbighshire.
- The corporation of the Borough of Holt is dissolved.
Arts and literatureAwardsNational Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Caernarfon- Chair – Richard Davies
- Crown – John Cadfan Davies
New books- Rhoda Broughton – Doctor Cupid
Music- William Owen "of Prysgol" – Y Perl Cerddorol yn cynnwys tonau ac anthemau, cysegredig a moesol (sol-fa edition)[1]
Sport- Football – Druids win the Welsh Cup for the fifth time in its nine-year history.
- Rugby union – Abercynon RFC and Treorchy RFC are founded.
Births- 3 March – Jack Jones, Wales international rugby player (died 1951)
- 4 March – Rowland Griffiths, Wales international rugby player (died 1914)
- 5 March – Freddie Welsh, Lightweight boxing champion of the world (died 1927)
- 14 March – David Watts, Wales international rugby union player (died 1916)
- 16 March – James Llewellyn Davies, VC winner (died 1917)
- 28 March – John Osborn Williams, entrepreneur (died 1963)
- 3 May – Morgan Jones, Welsh politician (died 1939)
- 4 May – Olive Wheeler, educationalist (died 1963)
- 6 June – John Morgan, Archbishop of Wales (died 1957)
- 17 June – David Brunt, meteorologist (died 1965)
- 11 July – Ernest Willows, aviation pioneer (died 1926)
- 13 July – Huw Menai (Huw Owen Williams), poet (died 1961)
- 22 September – Bil Perry, Welsh international rugby player (died 1970)
- 29 September – Jack Williams, VC recipient (died 1953)
- 9 November (probably) – S. O. Davies, politician (died 1972)
- 10 November – Fred Birt, Wales international rugby union player (died 1956)
- 22 December – David James Jones, philosopher and academic (died 1947)
Deaths- 28 February – John Jones, politician, 73
- 31 March – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, 85
- 9 July – Roger Edwards, minister and writer, 75
- 13 October – John Prichard, architect, 69
- 29 October – Evan Evans, ("Evans Bach Nantyglo"), minister, 82[2]
References1. ^https://biography.wales/article/s-OWEN-WIL-1813 Dictionary of Welsh Biography entry]
2. ^[https://biography.wales/article/s-EVAN-EVA-1804 Dictionary of Welsh Biography entry]
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