1826 in Wales

1826 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1826 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*January 30 - Opening of the Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford.
*July 1 - Opening of Telford's Conwy Suspension Bridge.
*The Calvinistic Methodist "connexion" produces its Constitutional Deed. It incorporates all property (such as chapels) as the property of the connexion as a whole.

Arts and literature

New books

*Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion) - "Golwg ar Gyflwr yr Iddewon, Cerdd"
*James Humphreys - "Observations on the Actual State of the English Laws of Real Property, with the outlines of a Code"

Music

*May 24 - John Parry (Bardd Alaw) is given a benefit concert by the Society of Cymmrodorion.

Births

*January 13 - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff (d. 1913)
*March 1 - John Thomas, harpist (d. 1913)
*May 8 - George Osborne Morgan, lawyer (d. 1897)
*May 11 - David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader (d. 1891)

Deaths

*April - Ned Turner, prize-fighter, 34
*December 18 - Iolo Morganwg, poet and antiquary, 79
*December 28 - Nathaniel Williams, theologian and hymn-writer, 84


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