1840 in Wales

1840 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1840 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*January 1 - Trial of John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones opens at Monmouth before Lord Chief Justice Tindal. This was the first trial where proceedings were recorded in shorthand.
*January 16 - Frost, Williams and Jones are all found guilty of high treason for their part in the Chartist riots, and are sentenced to death - the last time the sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering was passed in the UK. (The sentence was commuted to transportation.)
*October 8 - Opening of Crockherbtown station, now Cardiff Queen Street railway station
*October 9 - Taff Vale Railway is opened, the first major railway in Wales, running from Cardiff to Abercynon.
*November 18 - A paddle steamer, "City of Bristol", is wrecked at Llangennith, Gower, drowning about 22 people.
*Thomas Joseph Brown is consecrated "Vicar Apostolic" of the Roman Catholic District of Wales.

Arts and literature

*An eisteddfod is held at Liverpool.

New books

*Evan Davies (Eta Delta) - "Y Weinidogaeth a'r Eglwysi"
*Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet - "Memorials of the Parish and Family of Hanmer"
*William Lloyd - "The Narrative of a Journey from Cawnpoor to the Boorendo Pass"
*David Price (Dewi Dinorwig) - "Y Catechism Cyntaf"
*Taliesin Williams - "Hynafiaeth ac Awdurdodaeth Coelbren y Beirdd"

Music

*John Orlando Parry - "Wanted: a Governess" (opera)

Births

*February 26 - John Cynddylan Jones, theologian (died 1930)
*April 14 - Evan Jones (Gurnos), poet and musician (died 1903)
*June 21 - Sir John Rhŷs, educationist (died 1915)
*September 16 - Alfred Thomas, 1st Baron Pontypridd (died 1927)
*November 29 - Rhoda Broughton, novelist (died 1920)
*December 3 - Francis Kilvert, diarist (died 1879)
*December 5 - John E. Jones, governor of Nevada (died 1896)
*December 17 - Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician (died 1935)
*December 24 - Jabez Edmund Jenkins, poet (died 1903)

Deaths

*January 6 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet, politician and soldier, 67
*March 12 - John William Thomas, mathematician, 34?
*March 17 - William Williams of Wern, 58
*May 19 - John Blackwell (Alun), poet, 42?
*"date unknown" - Thomas George, miniaturist


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