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1839 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
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Decades:
  
1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1839 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • March - John Frost loses his position as a magistrate because of his Chartist sympathies.
  • May 8 - Henry Vincent is arrested after addressing a Chartist meeting and taken to prison at Monmouth.
  • May 13 - Beginning of the Rebecca Riots.
  • July 25 - William Ewart Gladstone marries Catherine Glynne of Hawarden.
  • August 27 - Mary Anne Lewis, widow of Cardiff MP Wyndham Lewis, marries Benjamin Disraeli.
  • October 5 - Opening of West Bute Dock.
  • November 4 - Newport Rising: several thousand coal miners march on the Westgate Hotel in Newport to liberate Chartist prisoners. 28 people are shot dead by police.
  • November 23 - Zephaniah Williams, one of the leaders of the Chartist march on Newport, is arrested on board ship at Cardiff.
  • Chartist riot in Llanidloes.
  • Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis resigns as chairman of the Poor Law Commission, to be replaced by his son, George Cornewall Lewis.

    • New books

  • William Bingley - Excursions in North Wales
  • Maria James - Wales and other Poems
  • William Williams (Caledfryn) - Drych Barddonol

    • Music

  • John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) - Hafilah (hymn tune)

    • Births

  • January 9 - Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer (d. 1916)
  • March 7 - Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist (d. 1909)
  • March 31 - Thomas Henry Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn) later known as T. H. Thomas, artist (d. 1915)
  • September 24 - John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor (d. 1931)

    • Deaths

  • May 11 - "Doctor" John Harries, Cwrt-y-cadno, physician, 54
  • May 16 - Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, 84
  • May 20 - Rice Rees, historian, 35
  • December 29 - Hopkin Bevan, minister and author, 74

    • References

    1839 in Wales Wikipedia
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