03/08/1861 |
A coal mining explosion in the Rhondda Valley of South Wales kills fourteen and injures others |
Crime/Disasters |
02/19/1862 |
Another British mining disaster kills forty-nine, this time in South Wales |
Crime/Disasters |
01/17/1863 |
David Lloyd George, future British wartime prime minister of Britain, is born in Manchester, England |
Personal |
04/06/1859 |
Dozens of miners are drowned when a mine floods in South Wales |
Crime/Disasters |
01/07/1867 to 01/08/1867 |
In Britain, heavy snow and violent winds cause winter disruption in northern Wales. |
Crime/Disasters |
10/25/1859 to 10/26/1859 |
Massive storms batter the western coast of the British Isles and cause hundreds of deaths |
Crime/Disasters |
12/01/1860 |
Mining disaster in Wales kills 142 men |
US/the World |
11/17/1858 |
Robert Owen dies in Wales, aged eighty |
Personal |
06/01/1852 |
Underwater telegraph line across the Irish Sea completed |
Foreign |