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1826 in Wales

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

Contents

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.

    • 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
  • Date unknown:
  • Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda, 70

    • References

    1826 in Wales Wikipedia
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