- 1836 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1836 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"Events
*April - Completion of the
Blaenau Ffestiniog Railway, the firstnarrow-gauge railway in the world.
*May 10 - 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed,Mold, Flintshire .
*June 21 - An Act of Parliament is passed, allowing the construction of theTaff Vale Railway .
*Crawshay Bailey buys theAberaman estate from the family of Anthony Bacon.
*Humphrey Gwalchmai launches the periodical "Yr Athraw".Arts and literature
New books
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Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) - "Hanes Cymru a Chenedl y Cymry o'r Cynoesoedd hyd at Farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd", vol. 1
*Rice Rees - "An Essay on the Welsh Saints"
*Thomas Roscoe - "Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales"
*Samuel Prideaux Tregelles - "Passages in the Old Testament connected with the Revelation"Music
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John David Edwards - "Original Sacred Music"Births
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March 15 -Griffith Jones (Glan Menai) , teacher and author (d. 1906)
*April 1 - John Owen, balladeer (d. 1915)
*October 6 -Allen Raine , novelist (d. 1908)
*October 20 -Daniel Owen , novelist (d. 1895)
*November 9
**Isaac Foulkes , newspaper proprietor (d. 1904)
**Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen , politician (d. 1905)Deaths
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August 11 -William Williams (Gwilym Twrog) , poet, 67
*November 22 -Peter Bailey Williams , clergyman and writer, 73
*SirChristopher Cole , politician
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