This article is about the particular significance of the year 1869 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey (until 7 February); William Owen Stanley (from 2 March) Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn 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 – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort 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 January Henry Austin Bruce becomes MP for Renfrewshire. Timothy Richards Lewis goes to India to study cholera. 1 May – The Western Mail is published for the first time. 19 May – Two days after John Young, the English manager of the Leeswood Green colliery, announces a pay cut, he is attacked by some of his workers. 2 June – Seven men are tried at Mold for attacking John Young. A riot breaks out as those convicted are being transported to the railway station; soldiers fire on the crowd, killing four people. 10 June 53 men and boys are killed in the second underground explosion within two years at Ferndale Colliery in the Rhondda. Three people are killed in a train derailment at Maesycwmmer in Glamorgan. August – Anti-Irish riots at Pontlottyn in the Rhymney Valley result in one death. 1 September – The Dyserth branch line is opened for goods traffic. 30 October – The first edition of the Welsh-language periodical Y Goleuad is published. unknown date Landore steelworks at Swansea established by Carl Wilhelm Siemens. John Hughes of Merthyr Tydfil buys land near the Sea of Azov, where he develops an ironworks and founds the city of Yuzovka (later Donetsk). Joseph Leycester Lyne (Father Ignatius of Jesus) acquires land at Capel-y-ffin and begins construction of an Anglican