begins producing coal. Nixon's Navigation Colliery at Mountain Ash opened, becoming the first true deep pit in South Wales. Principality Building Society established in Cardiff as the Principality Permanent Benefit Building and Investment Society. Four gun batteries are installed on Flat Holm. A mosque is founded in Cardiff Bay; it is sometimes incorrectly claimed as the first mosque in the UK. Excavation of Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles. approx. date — Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey adopts the long form of its name. Arts and literature Awards At the Denbigh eisteddfod, a decision is made to launch a national eisteddfod. An eisteddfod is held at Utica, New York. New books John Ceiriog Hughes — Oriau'r Hwyr Thomas Phillips — The Welsh Revival: Its Origin and Development William Rowlands — Dammeg y Mab Afradlon Music John Owen (Owain Alaw) — Gems of Welsh Melody (including the first Welsh lyric for March of the Men of Harlech, written by John Jones (Talhaiarn), and the first printing of Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau) Sport The first bowls club in Wales is founded at Abergavenny. Oswestry Town F.C. is founded. Births 21 February – Sir William Goscombe John, sculptor (died 1952) 25 March – Jack Powell, footballer (died 1947 29 March – Edward Peake, Wales international rugby union player (died 1945) 14 April – Howell Elvet Lewis (Elved), poet and archdruid (died 1953) 19 April – William Penfro Rowlands, composer (died 1937) 12 May – Sir John Ballinger, librarian (died 1933) 24 May – Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith, lawyer and politician (died 1926) 6 June – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet (died 1944) 30 July – Richard Summers, Wales rugby union international (died 1941) 6 September – George Irby, 6th Baron Boston, landowner and scientist (died 1941) 25 September – Thomas Francis Roberts, academic (died 1919) 31 December – Horace Lyne, Wales international rugby player and WRU president (died 1949) date unknown Sir William Price (died 1938) Deaths 26 January – Thomas Wood, politician, 82 21 March – John Lloyd Davies, politician 4 May – William Ormsby-Gore, politician, 81 1 July – Robert Thomas, printer and newspaper proprietor who settled in Australia, 78 17 July – Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse, 71 31 August – John Parker, clergyman and artist, 61 7 November – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 69 13 November – David Dale Owen, geologist in the USA, 53 27 November – Richard Richards,