page_title: 1857 in Wales
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1857 in Wales / Events
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context_section_description: 4 March — Thomas Gee launches the radical nonconformist newspaper Baner Cymru in Denbigh.
  24 March — 1857 United Kingdom general election, concludes. Anglesey antiquarian William Owen Stanley becomes Whig MP for the Beaumaris District of Boroughs.
  6 May — Samuel Roberts (S. R.) sails for Tennessee.
  1 June — Opening of the Crumlin Viaduct, built to carry the Taff Vale Extension of the Newport, Abergavenny and Hereford Railway.
  10 August — John Bowen is consecrated as Bishop of Sierra Leone.
  13 August — Eugene Goddard crosses the Menai Strait in his gas balloon Aurora from Caernarfon Castle to Llanidan.
  3 October — The Newport Gazette is founded by William Nicholas Johns.
  14 October — Four people are killed in a railway accident near Pyle.
  29 October — St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, badly damaged by arson.
  Autumn — Aberdare Strike 1857-8 against reductions in coal miners' pay begins.
  Railway workers go on strike at Aberdare.
caption: Crumlin Viaduct
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