1844 in Wales

1844 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*January 1 - 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.
*February 14 - 40 men are killed by flooding in a coal-mine at Landslipping, Pembrokeshire.
*May 13 - 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston.
*December 3 - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
*A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire.
*Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.

Arts and literature

New books

*Hugh Derfel Hughes - "Blodau'r Gân"
*David Owen (Brutus) - "Eliasia"

Music

*Rowland Prichard - "Cyfaill y Can­to­ri­on (The Singer's Friend)"
*Maria Jane Williams - "Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg"

Births

*March 7 - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905)
*April 28 - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
*June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887)
*July 28 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)
*December 1 - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)

Deaths

*January 18 - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69
*November 23 - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83


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