1877 in Wales

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• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – William Owen Stanley{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk{{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse{{cite news|title=Death of Colonel Pryse|url=http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3344911/3344915/21|access-date=27 February 2018|agency=Cambrian News|date=1 June 1888|page=4}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot{{cite journal|last=Campbell|first=Thomas Methuen|title=C.R.M. Talbot 1803–1890|journal=Morgannwg|date=2000|volume=44|pages=66–104|url=http://welshjournals.llgc.org.uk/browse/viewobject/llgc-id:1174908/article/000041850|access-date=17 May 2014}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort{{cite book|author=James Henry Clark|title=History of Monmouthshire|publisher=County Observer|year=1869|page=375}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley{{cite book|author=Amy Audrey Locke|title=The Hanbury Family|publisher=Arthur L. Humphreys|year=1916|page=170}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite

• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=292}}{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=266}}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
• Bishop of St Asaph – Joshua Hughes{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=307}}{{cite DWB | id=s-JONE-BAS-1822 | title=Jones, William Basil (Tickell) (1822–1897) | access-date=21 April 2011}}

• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd{{cite web|title=GRIFFITH, DAVID (Clwydfardd; 1800–1894)|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-GRIF-DAV-1800|author=Daniel Williams|website=Welsh Biography Online|publisher=National Library of Wales|accessdate=15 December 2019}}

• 8 March – In a mining accident at Worcester Colliery, Swansea, seventeen men are killed.{{cite book|title=United States Congressional Serial Set|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hyVHAQAAIAAJ|year=1897|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=593}}
• 11 April – In a mining accident at Tynewydd Colliery, Rhondda, five men are killed by flooding.{{cite web|url=https://museum.wales/articles/2012-06-19/The-Tynewydd-Mining-Disaster/|title=The Tynewydd Mining Disaster|author=Ceri Thompson|website=Museum of Wales|access-date=15 December 2019}} Twenty-five of the rescue team are awarded the Albert Medal for bravery.
• 10 July – Consecration of new Merthyr Synagogue, the oldest surviving synagogue building in Wales.
• 1 August – Opening of new Llandudno Pier.{{cite book|author=Frank Crossley Thornley|title=Steamers of North Wales, past and present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HhcZAAAAIAAJ|year=1952|publisher=T. Stephenson|page=66}}
• 15 August – Opening to passengers of the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways from Dinas to Tryfan Junction and Bryngwyn.{{cite book|author=Donald J. Grant|title=Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ok88DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA419|date=31 October 2017|publisher=Troubador Publishing Ltd|isbn=978-1-78803-768-6|pages=419}}
• 30 November – Opening of the new market hall at Builth Wells by Sir Joseph Bailey M.P.
• unknown dates
• Opening of Stepaside, Pembrokeshire village school (part of modern-day Stepaside Heritage Park).
• Closure of lead mine at Loggerheads, Denbighshire.

• Islwyn wins a bardic chair at Treherbert.

• Richard Davies (Mynyddog) – Y Trydydd Cynnig{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic|url-access=registration|date=April 1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic/page/136 136]}}
• William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Helyntion Bywyd Hen Deiliwr

• Joseph Parry resigns from his position as Professor of Music at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.{{cite book | last = Williams | first = Gareth | title = Valleys of song: music and society in Wales 1840-1914 | publisher = University of Wales Press | location = Cardiff | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780708314807 | page=80}}

• Football
• The Racecourse Ground at Wrexham hosts Wales' first ever home international match, making it the world's oldest international football stadium still to host international matches.{{cite web|url=http://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport-news/wrexham-fc/2008/06/18/guinness-cheers-racecourse-with-official-record-55578-21092141/ |title=Guinness cheers Racecourse with official record |work=Daily Post North Wales |date=18 June 2008 |accessdate=18 June 2008 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110720014121/http://www.dailypost.co.uk/sport-news/wrexham-fc/2008/06/18/guinness-cheers-racecourse-with-official-record-55578-21092141/ |archivedate=20 July 2011 }}
• The Welsh Cup is inaugurated.
• Rugby union
• 8 November – Blaenavon RFC play their first game, against Abergavenny.

• 2 May – Sid Bevan, Welsh international rugby union player (died 1933)
• 6 June (in Guernsey) – Herbert John Fleure, zoologist and geographer (died 1969){{Cite journal | last1 = Garnett | first1 = A. | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1970.0009 | title = Herbert John Fleure. 1877-1969 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 16 | pages = 253–278| year = 1970 | s2cid = 73303585 | doi-access = free }}
• 9 June – George Travers, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945)
• 21 June – Elizabeth Mary Jones (Moelona), Welsh-language children's novelist (died 1953){{Cite DWB|id=s2-JONE-MAR-1877|title=JONES, ELIZABETH MARY ('Moelona'; 1877-1953), teacher and novelist|last=Jenkins|first=David|year=2001|access-date=2020-03-09}}
• 1 July – Llewellyn Lloyd, Wales international rugby union player (died 1957)
• 19 August – John Evans, supercentenarian (died 1990)
• 17 September – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist (died 1928){{cite DWB|id=s2-BERR-BUC-1847|title=Berry (family), (Lords Buckland, Camrose and Kemsley,) industrialists and newspaper proprietors|author=Mary Auronwy James|year=2001|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=15 December 2019}}
• 26 September (in Wandsworth) – Edmund Gwenn, actor (died 1959) (long believed to have been born in Wales)
• 5 October – Lily Gower, croquet player (died 1959){{cite book|editor-first=Frederick Arthur |editor-last=Crisp |title=Visitation of England and Wales |volume=19 |url=https://archive.org/details/visitationofengl19howa/page/51/mode/1up|year=1906 |page=51}}

• 27 October – David Harris Davies, Wales international rugby union player (died 1944)
• 7 November – Maurice Parry, footballer (died 1935)
• 27 November – Leigh Richmond Roose, football goalkeeper (killed in battle 1916)
• 2 December – John Strand-Jones, Wales international rugby union player (died 1958)

• 9 January – Thomas Thomas, clergyman, 72
• 24 June – Robert Dale Owen, Welsh-American politician, 75{{cite web| title =Owen, Robert Dale (1801–1877) | work =Biographical Directory of the United States Congress | publisher =U.S. Congress | url =http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=O000152 | accessdate =12 September 2017}}
• 14 July – Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet, 44{{cite book|title=Montgomery-shire Collections|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sshAAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA2|year=1877|publisher=Powys-land Club|pages=2}}
• 18 July – Thomas Richards, "father of Tasmanian journalism", 77
• 27 July – John Frost, Chartist leader, 93{{cite book|title=The Annual summary, by J. Mason|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FzoIAAAAQAAJ&pg=RA1-PA276|year=1877|pages=276}}
• 5 August – Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet, 47{{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-ROB-1830|title=Williams, Robert (Trebor Mai; 1830–1877), poet|author=Iwan Meical Jones|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=15 December 2019}}
• 17 October – Charles Williams, academic, 73?
• 7 November – Calvert Jones, painter and pioneer photographer, 72{{cite DWB|id=s3-JONE-RIC-1802|title=Jones, Calvert Richard (1802–1877), pioneer photographer, artist and priest|author=Iwan Meical Jones|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=15 December 2019}}
• 13 December – John Griffith (journalist), journalist who wrote under the pseudonym Y Gohebydd, 56{{cite book |editor1-first=John |editor1-last=Davies|editor1-link=John Davies (historian)|editor2-first=Nigel |editor2-last=Jenkins | editor2-link=Nigel Jenkins| editor3-first=Baines |editor3-last=Menna|editor4-first=Peredur I. |editor4-last=Lynch|display-editors=etal |title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales |year=2008 |publisher=University of Wales Press |location=Cardiff |isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6}}

• 1877 in Ireland

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