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1836 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1836 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • April - Completion of the Ffestiniog Railway, the first narrow-gauge railway in the world.
  • 10 May – 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire.
  • 21 June - An Act of Parliament is passed, allowing the construction of the Taff Vale Railway.
  • Crawshay Bailey buys the Aberaman estate from the family of Anthony Bacon.
  • Humphrey Gwalchmai launches the periodical Yr Athraw.
  • The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites is established in Wrexham by Thomas Robert Jones, it is Wales' first friendly society.
  • The final known duel takes place in Wales, between MP Sir John Owen and former Tenby mayor William Richards. Richards is badly wounded.

    • New books

  • Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) - Hanes Cymru a Chenedl y Cymry o'r Cynoesoedd hyd at Farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 1
  • Rice Rees - An Essay on the Welsh Saints
  • Thomas Roscoe - Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales
  • Samuel Prideaux Tregelles - Passages in the Old Testament connected with the Revelation
  • John Williams (Ab Ithel) - Eglwys Loegr yn Anymddibynol ar Eglwys Rhufain

    • Music

  • John David Edwards - Original Sacred Music

    • Births

  • 30 January – Lewis Jones, one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1904)
  • 15 March - Griffith Jones (Glan Menai), teacher and author (d. 1906)
  • 1 April - John Owen, balladeer (d. 1915)
  • 26 May - Sir John Dillwyn-Llewellyn, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1927)
  • 5 July - Evan Herber Evans, Nonconformist leader (d. 1896)
  • 6 October - Allen Raine, novelist (d. 1908)
  • 20 October - Daniel Owen, novelist (d. 1895)
  • 9 November – Isaac Foulkes, newspaper proprietor (d. 1904)
  • 9 November – Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen, politician (d. 1905)

    • Deaths

  • 11 August - William Williams (Gwilym Twrog), poet, 67
  • 24 August Sir Christopher Cole, Royal Navy officer and politician
  • 22 November - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and writer, 73

    • References

    1836 in Wales Wikipedia
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