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1835 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1835 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

  • 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.
  • New books

  • Y Fwyalchen (poetry anthology)
  • Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis - The Lyvys of the Seyntys
  • Music

  • Anglesey Musical Society holds its first festival.
  • John Roberts (Alaw Elwy) plays the harp for Queen Adelaide at Winchester.
  • Births

  • 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)
  • Deaths

  • 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
  • References

    1835 in Wales Wikipedia