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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1835 to Wales and its people.
Prince of Wales - vacant
Princess of Wales - vacant
8 January - Sir Joseph Bailey is elected MP for Worcester.
19 February - In the United Kingdom general election, newly elected MPs in Wales include Wilson Jones at Denbigh Boroughs.
March - At a public meeting in the King's Head Inn, Newport, plans for a floating dock are agreed.
July - The Newport Dock Act receives the royal assent.
September - John Frost is one of the first councillors elected in Newport under the terms of the Municipal Reform Act.
1 December - John Owen, mayor of Newport, cuts the first sod as construction begins on Newport Docks.
The steam whistle, invented by Adrian Stephens two years earlier, is seen in operation at Dowlais ironworks and adopted by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway shortly afterwards.
Adam Sedgwick names the Cambrian period in geology.
Arts and literature
The Royal Institution of South Wales is established as the Swansea Philosophical and Literary Society.
Y Fwyalchen (poetry anthology)
Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis - The Lyvys of the Seyntys
Anglesey Musical Society holds its first festival.
John Roberts (Alaw Elwy) plays the harp for Queen Adelaide at Winchester.
5 April (in Trowbridge) – Solomon Andrews, entrepreneur (d. 1908)
10 May – John Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe, industrialist (d. 1913)
14 July – John Roberts, politician (d. 1894)
7 August – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist (d. 1935)
29 August – Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (d. 1914)
13 May – John Nash, architect, 83
16 May – Felicia Hemans, poet, 41
4 June – William Owen Pughe, grammarian and lexicographer, 75
1 December – Robert Davies (Robin Ddu o'r Glyn), poet, 66
29 December – Richard Llwyd, poet, 83
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