This article is about the particular significance of the year 1876 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- January â The Argentine government appoints Antonio Oneto as civil authority over the Welsh colony in Patagonia, the population of which numbers 690.
- 9 January â The death of John Russell, Viscount Amberley, leaves Bertrand Russell an orphan.
- 19 May â Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet, files for bankruptcy in Manchester with debts exceeding ã500,000, causing his Dinas Mawddwy estate to be put up for sale.
- June â Francis Kilvert becomes vicar of Saint Harmon, Radnorshire.
- 13 July â Act of Parliament allows the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways Company to abandon plans for a line between Croesor Junction and Betws-y-Coed.
- 22 July â Art Treasures & Industrial Exhibition of North Wales & the Border Counties in Wrexham is opened.
- 19 August â Judge John Johnes is murdered at his home on Dolaucothi Estate by his butler.
- 2 December â Cardiff RFC plays its first match, against Newport.
- 18 December â In a mining accident at South Wales Pit, Abertillery, twenty men are killed.
Arts and literature
New books
Music
Sport
Births
Deaths
- 3 January â Rosser Beynon, musician, 64
- 19 February â Daniel Davies, Baptist preacher, 78
- 24 February â Joseph Jenkins Roberts, President of Liberia, son of a Welsh planter, 66
- 23 April <small>(at Karlsruhe)</small> â Frances Bunsen, painter, 85
- 2 May â Daniel Thomas Williams (Tydfylyn), poet and musician (born 1820)
- 15 June â John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician, 60
- 19 July (in the United States) â George E. Pugh, Welsh-American politician, 53
- 8 August â Lady Sarah Elizabeth Hay-Williams, English-born artist and illustrator, 75
- 21 August â C. W. Evan, Congregationalist minister in colonial South Australia, age unknown
- 9 November â John David Jenkins, philanthropist, 58
- 17 November â Thomas Rees (Twm Carnabwth), leader of Rebecca Riots
- 20 November â Robert Herbert Williams (Corfanydd), musician (born 1805)
- 25 December â Adrian Stephens, inventor of the steam whistle, 81
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