1848 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1848 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 1 - Llandovery College opens in the building known as the "Depot".
*August 24 - An American sailing ship, "Ocean Monarch", catches fire off Colwyn Bay, with the loss of 178 lives.
*October - Completion of the North Wales Hospital.
*Michael D. Jones becomes a minister in Cincinnati, Ohio.
*Trinity College, Carmarthen, is founded, to train teachers for the Church of England.

Arts and literature

New books

*John Hughes - "The Self-Searcher"
*John Jenkins - "National Education"
*Richard Williams Morgan - "Maynooth and St. Asaph"
*Edward Parry - "Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead"

Music

*Robert Herbert Williams - "Alawydd Trefriw"

Births

*February 12 - Beriah Gwynfe Evans, journalist and dramatist (died 1927)
*October 5 - Sir John Purser Griffiths, civil engineer (died 1938)
*September 18 - Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)
*November 2 - Alfred George Edwards, first Archbishop of Wales (died 1917)
*December 30 - David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)

Deaths

*January 17 - Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 63 (accidentally shot by his son)
*March 18 - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff, 54
*March 27 - William Ellis Jones, poet, 52
*April 2 - Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquary, 64
*November 7 - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian, 61