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1831 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1831 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - vacant
  • Princess of Wales - vacant

    • Events

  • 28 April–1 June - In the UK general election:
  • Robert Fulke Greville is defeated in Pembrokeshire by Sir John Owen of Orielton.
  • Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn becomes MP for Flintshire.
  • John Jones of Ystrad is injured in rioting during the election at Carmarthen, causing polling there to be postponed.
  • 3 June - Merthyr Rising.
  • 5 August - Charles Darwin travels from Shrewsbury to Llangollen with his tutor, Rev Adam Sedgwick, to carry out geological studies. They remain in Wales for more than two weeks.
  • 17 August - The paddle steamer Rothsay Castle is wrecked at the eastern end of the Menai Strait with the loss of 93 lives.
  • August - John Jones of Ystrad holds the constituency of Carmarthen.
  • 22 October - John Jones of Ystrad and Robert Fulke Greville fight a duel at Tafarnspite.
  • Repeal of the slate tax.
  • Port Talbot ironworks opens.
  • William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) becomes a minister.

    • New books

  • John Evans (I. D. Ffraid) - Hanes yr Iddewon

    • New publications

    Y Drysorfa a Calvinistic Methodist publication, restarts under the editorship of John Parry

    Births

  • 13 January - William Hugh Evans, minister and author (d. 1909)
  • May - Dewi Havhesp, poet (d. 1884)
  • 3 May - Sir Walter Vaughan Morgan, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1916)
  • 16 May - David E. Hughes, musician and professor of music (d. 1900)
  • 21 July - Edward Lewis, Welsh-born New Zealand clergyman (d. 1913)
  • 16 October - John Jones (Eos Bradwen), composer (d. 1899)
  • 8 December - William Dykins, poet (d. 1872)
  • 14 December - Griffith John, missionary (d. 1912)
  • 20 December - William T. Davies, Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1912)
  • date unknown
  • William Davies (Gwilym Teilo), writer (d. 1892)
  • Edward Payson Evans, historian and linguist (d. 1917)

    • Deaths

  • 7 January - Edward "Celtic" Davies, author, 74
  • 8 June - Sarah Siddons, actress, 75
  • 11 August - Cradock Glascott, Evangelical clergyman and associate of the Wesley brothers, 88
  • 13 August - Dic Penderyn, labourer, 23 (executed)
  • date unknown - Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician

    • References

    1831 in Wales Wikipedia
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