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1844 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
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Decades:
  
1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
  • Princess of Wales – vacant

    • Events

  • January 1 - 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.
  • February 14 - 40 men are killed by flooding in a coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire.
  • May 13 - 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston.
  • December 3 - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
  • A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire.
  • Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.

    • New books

  • Hugh Derfel Hughes - Blodau'r Gân
  • David Owen (Brutus) - Eliasia

    • Music

  • Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend)
  • Maria Jane Williams - Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg

    • Visual arts

  • English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.

    • Sport

  • Denbigh Cricket Club is founded.

    • Births

  • 1 January - Robert Clayton, cricketer (died 1901)
  • 7 March - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905)
  • 28 April - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
  • June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887)
  • 28 July - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)
  • 3 August - Herbert Armitage James, clergyman and schoolmaster (died 1931)
  • 1 December - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)

    • Deaths

  • 18 January - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69
  • 7 April - Morgan Lewis, Welsh-descended American politician, 89
  • 23 November - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83

    • References

    1844 in Wales Wikipedia
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