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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1860–1869 to Wales and its people.
Events
Arts and literature
Awards
- 1861 - Aberdare
- 1862 - Caernarfon
- 1863 - Swansea
- 1864 - Llandudno
- 1865 - Aberystwyth
- 1866 - Chester
- 1867 - Carmarthen - A crown is presented for the first time
- 1868 - Ruthin - The Eisteddfod Council is disbanded
- 1869 - Holywell
New books
- R. D. Blackmore - Clara Vaughan (1864)
- George Borrow - Wild Wales (1862)
- Rhoda Broughton - Cometh up as a Flower (1867)
- Richard Davies (Mynyddog) - Caneuon Mynyddog (1866)
- Huw Derfel - Llawlyfr Carnedd Llywelyn (1864)
- Robert Jones Derfel - Traethodau ac Areithiau (1864)
- John Ceiriog Hughes
- Oriau'r Hwyr (1860)
- Oriau'r Bore (1862)
- Cant o Ganeuon (1863)
- Y Bardd a'r Cerddor (1865)
- Oriau eraill (1868)
- David Watkin Jones (Dafydd Morgannwg) - Yr Ysgol Farddol (1869)
- William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) - Emmanuel (1861)
- William Thomas (Islwyn) - Caniadau (1867)
- Robert Williams (Trebor Mai)
- Fy Noswyl (1861)
- Geninen (1869)
- Alfred Russel Wallace
- The Origin of Human Races and the Antiquity of Man Deduced from the Theory of 'Natural Selection (1864)
- The Malay Archipelago (1867)
Music
- William Griffiths (Ifander) - Gwarchae Harlech (cantata) (1864)
- Hugh Jerman - Deus Misereatur (1861)
- Henry Brinley Richards - "God Bless the Prince of Wales" (1863)
- John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia)
- Llewelyn (cantata) (1863)
- The Bride of Neath Valley (cantata) (1866)
Sport
- 1860 - The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny.
Births
- 1860
- date unknown - Sir William Price (died 1938)
- 1861
- date unknown
- John Edward Lloyd, historian (died 1947)
- Thomas Mardy Rees, writer (died 1953)
- date unknown
- 1862
- date unknown - John Daniel Evans, Patagonia settler
- 1863
- January 17 - David Lloyd George, politician (died 1945)
- March 3 - Arthur Machen, writer (died 1947)
- 1864
- January 8 - Prince Albert Victor, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1892)
- October 17 - Sir John Morris-Jones, grammarian (died 1929)
- date unknown - Charles Alfred Howell Green, first Bishop of Monmouth (died 1944)
- 1865
- June 3 - Prince George, second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales and himself Prince of Wales 1901–1910 (later George V)
- date unknown - William Brace, politician (died 1947)
- 1866
- October 12 - James Ramsay MacDonald, politician (died 1937)
- date unknown - John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes, poet and hymn-writer (died 1944)
- 1867
- May 2 - Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn), poet (died 1926)
- May 13 - Frank Brangwyn, artist (died 1956)
- May 26 - Mary of Teck, later Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1953)
- September 29 - John Richard Williams (J.R. Tryfanwy), poet (died 1924)
- 1869
- September 6 - Walford Davies, composer (died 1944)
- date unknown
- Thomas Rees, theologian (died 1926)
- Osbert Fynes-Clinton, dialectologist (died 1941)
Deaths
- 1860
- May 4 - William Ormsby-Gore, politician (born 1779)
- July 17 - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (born 1789)
- 1861
- May 8 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (born 1830)
- 1862
- January 3 - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (born 1810)
- date unknown - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary
- 1863
- April - George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (born 1806)
- 1864
- March 11 - Richard Roberts, engineer
- August 1 - Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (born 1777)
- date unknown
- Evan Davies, missionary
- Mary Jones, early owner of a Welsh Bible
- 1865
- February 21 - Stapleton Cotton, military leader (born 1773)
- 1866
- January 27 - John Gibson, sculptor (born 1790)
- 1867
- April 27 - Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover, industrialist (born 1802)
- May 23 - William Crawshay II, industrialist (born 1788)
- 1868
- June 22 - Owain Meirion, poet (born 1803)
- date unknown - Dafydd Jones (Dewi Dywyll), balladeer (born 1803)
- 1869
- March 31 - David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr), Nonconformist leader and author
- date unknown - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet (born 1810)