1850 in Wales

1850 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1850 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*March 5 - Opening of the Britannia Bridge.
*June 16 - Opening of the South Wales Railway between Chepstow and Swansea.
*November - Launch of the periodical "Y Drych".
*December 14 - 13 men are killed in a mining accident at New Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.
*G. T. Clark marries Ann Price Lewis, a descendant of one of the original partners in the Dowlais Ironworks.
*The Llanelli Board of Health is founded, with William Chambers as its first chairman.
*The Merthyr Board of Health is founded, with John Josiah Guest as its first chairman.

Arts and literature

New books

*Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch) - "Geirlyfr Saesoneg a Chymraeg, An English and Welsh Dictionary"
*Elijah Waring - "Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward Williams"
*Morris Williams (Nicander) - "Y Psalmwyr"

Music

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Births

*January 4 - Griffith J. Griffith, industrialist (died 1919)
*April 16 - Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (died 1885)

Deaths

*April 19 - Sir John Edwards of Garth, politician, 80
*September 2 - Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, politician, 74


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