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
- 01/08/1867
In Britain, heavy snow and violent winds cause winter disruption in northern Wales. Crime/Disasters
10/25/1859
- 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
