This article is about the particular significance of the year 1865 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins (until 28 September) George Pratt, 2nd Marquess Camden (from 4 November) Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Edward Pryse Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sudeley Hanbury-Tracy, 3rd Baron Sudeley Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 3rd Baron Kensington Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall Events 5 January — The Festiniog Railway officially opens to passengers, the first narrow gauge railway in the British Isles to do so. 14 January — American Confederate paddle steamer Lelia sinks off the north Wales coast with the loss of eighteen lives. 1 February — The Vale of Neath Railway is amalgamated with the Great Western Railway. 14 April Opening of the Royal Pier, Aberystwyth, built by Eugenius Birch at a cost of £13,600. Paddle steamer Great Empress collides with Beaumaris Pier. May Opening of Talyllyn Railway. A branch of The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites Friendly Society is established and registered at Colwinston. 28 May — The Mimosa sets sail with emigrants for Patagonia. 10 June — Opening of Penarth Dock. 3 July — Opening of Barmouth Junction on the Aberystwith and Welsh Coast Railway. 28 July — The town of Puerto Madryn and the Patagonian colony is founded by Michael D. Jones. 2 August — The Wales memorial to the late Prince Albert at Tenby, sculpted by John Evan Thomas, is unveiled by Albert and Victoria's 3rd son, 15-year-old Prince Arthur on his first public engagement. 9 September — First of fifteen deaths in the only outbreak of yellow fever ever to occur in Britain, at Swansea. 29 November — Two men die when a coal train