1844 in Wales

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

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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