1846 in Wales

1846 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1846 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 14 - 35 men are killed in a mining accident at Risca.
*March - A speech by William Williams, MP for Coventry, on the subject of education and the Welsh language leads to the commissioning of a report.
*June 27 - Thomas Frankland Lewis is created a baronet.
*August 1 - Opening of the Aberdare railway.
*Mormon missionaries arrive in Merthyr Tydfil.
*"Archaeologia Cambrensis" is launched by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel).

Arts and literature

New books

*Griffith Edwards (Gutyn Padarn) - "Gwaith Prydyddawl"
*Daniel Silvan Evans - "Telynegion"
*Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - "Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613..."
*William Morgan (Gwilym Gelli-deg) - "Cerbyd Awen"

Music

*"Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol" (collection of hymns)

Births

*October 1 - John Cadvan Davies, minister and poet (d. 1823)
*October 17 - Mary Davies (Mair Eifion), poet (d. 1882)
*December 6 - James Charles, theologian (d. 1920)
*December 28 - William Frost, harpist (d. 1891)
*"date unknown" - Samuel M. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio (d. 1904)

Deaths

*March 9 - William Hughes, composer, 88
*March 28 - Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), poet, 53
*July 29 - John Owens, educational benefactor, 55
*December 3 - Daniel Jones, missionary, 33


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