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1846 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1846 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 14 January - 35 men are killed in a mining accident at Risca.
  • March - A speech by William Williams, MP for Coventry, on the subject of education and the Welsh language leads to the commissioning of a report.
  • 27 June - Thomas Frankland Lewis is created a baronet.
  • 1 August - Opening of the Aberdare railway.
  • 3 August - Mary Cornelia Edwards of Plas Machynlleth marries George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry.
  • October - New bridge over the River Towy at Llandeilo collapses under construction.
  • New cast-iron Llandinam Bridge in Montgomeryshire opened.
  • Rebuilt Beaumaris Pier opened.
  • Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones becomes mission president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales, concentrating the church's efforts around Merthyr Tydfil, publishing (from July) the Welsh language monthly Prophwyd y Jubili and also the tract Hanes Saint y Dyddiau Diweddaf.
  • The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis.

    • New books

  • Griffith Edwards (Gutyn Padarn) - Gwaith Prydyddawl
  • Daniel Silvan Evans - Telynegion
  • Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613...
  • William Morgan (Gwilym Gelli-deg) - Cerbyd Awen

    • Music

  • Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol (collection of hymns)

    • Births

  • 8 January - Henry Bracy, tenor (d. 1917)
  • 1 October - John Cadvan Davies, minister and poet (d. 1823)
  • 17 October - Mary Davies (Mair Eifion), poet (d. 1882)
  • 24 November - Tom Hurry Riches, steam locomotive engineer (d. 1911)
  • 6 December - James Charles, theologian (d. 1920)
  • 28 December - William Frost, harpist (d. 1891)
  • 3 August - Samuel M. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio (d. 1904)

    • Deaths

  • 9 March - William Hughes, composer, 88
  • 28 March - Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), poet, 53
  • 29 July - John Owens, educational benefactor, 55
  • 3 December - Daniel Jones, missionary, 33

    • References

    1846 in Wales Wikipedia
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