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1848 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
17th 18th 19th 20th 21st

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

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1848 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 1 March – Llandovery College opens in the building known as the "Depot".
  • 1 May – Opening for Chester and Holyhead Railway traffic of the first tube of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.
  • 1 August – Opening of an isolated section of the Chester and Holyhead Railway across Anglesey from Llanfair to Holyhead.
  • 24 August – The American barque Ocean Monarch catches fire off Colwyn Bay, with the loss of 178 lives.
  • 24 October – Trinity College, Carmarthen is established (as the South Wales and Monmouthshire Training College), to train teachers for the Church of England.
  • 14 November – Opening of the North Wales County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (North Wales Hospital), Denbigh.
  • The new Llandeilo Bridge is completed, with a span of 145 feet (44 m) over the River Towy.
  • Michael D. Jones becomes a minister in Cincinnati, Ohio.

    • New books

  • John Hughes - The Self-Searcher
  • John Jenkins - National Education
  • Richard Williams Morgan - Maynooth and St. Asaph
  • Edward Parry - Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead

    • Music

  • Robert Herbert Williams - Alawydd Trefriw

    • Visual arts

  • John Evan Thomas - Death of Tewdric Mawr, King of Gwent (sculpture)

    • Births

  • 23 January – Daniel James, bardic poet and lyricist of Calon Lân (died 1920)
  • 12 February – Beriah Gwynfe Evans, journalist and dramatist (died 1927)
  • 18 September – Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)
  • 5 October – Sir John Purser Griffiths, civil engineer (died 1938)
  • 2 November – Alfred Edwards, first Archbishop of Wales (died 1917)
  • 30 December – David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)
  • Charles Ashton police officer, literary historian and bibliophile (suicide 1899)

    • Deaths

  • 17 January – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 63 (accidentally shot by his son)
  • 18 March – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff, 54
  • 27 March – William Ellis Jones, poet, 52
  • 2 April – Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquary, 64
  • 7 November – Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian, 61

    • References

    1848 in Wales Wikipedia
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