1841 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1841 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (from December 8)
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*February 20 - The "Governor Fenner", carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead with the loss of 123 lives.
*March 9 - The first known photograph is taken in Wales, of Margam Castle by Calvert Jones.
*August 19 - In the United Kingdom general election, William Edwards stands as a Chartist candidate in Monmouth Boroughs and becomes the only Parliamentary candidate in Wales, ever, not to win a single vote.
*The Taff Vale Railway is extended to Merthyr Tydfil
*Founding of Bala-Bangor Congregational College.
*Poor Law Amendment Act is passed, largely thanks to the efforts of Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
*Mordecai Jones opens a brewery at Brecon.
*The Brymbo ironworks are bought out of Chancery after a long period of litigation and reopened by a limited company.

Arts and literature

New books

*David Owen (Brutus) - "Gweithrediadau yr Eglwys Sefydledig"
*"Welsh Book of Common Prayer" (new edition)

Music

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Births

*January 28 - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (died 1904)
*February 14
**Sir John Gibson, journalist (died 1915)
**William Reginald Herbert, horseman (died 1929)
*April 23 - Henry Hughes, minister and historian (died 1924)
*May 21 - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
*November 9 - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (died 1910)

Deaths

*January 17 - David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet, 56
*May 12 - Joseph Tudor Hughes, harpist, 13 (drowning)
*June 8 - John Elias, preacher, 67
*December 4 - David Daniel Davis, physician, 64