1836 in Wales

1836 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1836 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*April - Completion of the Blaenau Ffestiniog Railway, the first narrow-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 the Taff Vale Railway.
*Crawshay Bailey buys the Aberaman estate from the family of Anthony Bacon.
*Humphrey Gwalchmai launches the periodical "Yr Athraw".

Arts and literature

New books

*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

*John David Edwards - "Original Sacred Music"

Births

*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

*August 11 - William Williams (Gwilym Twrog), poet, 67
*November 22 - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and writer, 73
*Sir Christopher Cole, politician


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