Harman Patil (Editor)

1841 in Wales

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Centuries:
  
17th18th19th20th21st

Decades:
  
1820s1830s1840s1850s1860s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1841 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – Albert Edward (from 8 December)
  • Princess of Wales - vacant

    • Events

  • 20 February - The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead with the loss of 123 lives.
  • 9 March - The first known photograph is taken in Wales, of Margam Castle by Calvert Jones.
  • 12 April - The Taff Vale Railway is extended to Merthyr Tydfil
  • 26 July - The proprietors of The Skerries Lighthouse off Anglesey, the last privately owned light in the British Isles, are awarded £444,984 in compensation for its sale to Trinity House.
  • 19 August - In the United Kingdom general election, William Edwards stands as a Chartist candidate in Monmouth Boroughs and becomes the only Parliamentary candidate in Wales, ever, not to win a single vote.
  • Founding of Bala-Bangor Congregational College.
  • Poor Law Amendment Act is passed, largely thanks to the efforts of Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
  • Mordecai Jones opens a brewery at Brecon.
  • The Brymbo ironworks are bought out of Chancery after a long period of litigation and reopened by a limited company.
  • Opening of Swansea Museum by the Royal Institution of South Wales.

    • New books

  • David Owen (Brutus) - Gweithrediadau yr Eglwys Sefydledig
  • Welsh Book of Common Prayer (new edition)

    • Births

  • 28 January - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (died 1904)
  • 14 February
  • Sir John Gibson, journalist (died 1915)
  • William Reginald Herbert, horseman (died 1929)
  • 5 April - Robert Rees, singer and musician (died 1892)
  • 23 April - Henry Hughes, minister and historian (died 1924)
  • 21 May - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
  • 26 June (in London) - James Cholmeley Russell, railway entrepreneur (died 1912)
  • 9 November (in London) - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII (died 1910)

    • Deaths

  • 17 January - David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet, 56
  • 12 May - Joseph Tudor Hughes, harpist, 13 (drowning)
  • 19 May - John Blackwell (Alun), poet, 42
  • 24 May - Thomas Roberts, Llwyn'rhudol, co-founder of Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion
  • 8 June - John Elias, preacher, 67
  • 4 December - David Daniel Davis, physician, 64

    • References

    1841 in Wales Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


    Similar Topics