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1849 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1849 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • January 2 — Completion of both tubes of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.
  • February 26 — Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones embarks with 249 Welsh converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bound for Salt Lake City from Liverpool.
  • May 13 — A case of cholera is recorded in Cardiff, the beginning of an outbreak that spreads to Merthyr, Dowlais and Aberdare, and kills 800 people.
  • June 20 — First tube of Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge is floated into position on the Menai Strait.
  • November 1 — Alfred Ollivant becomes Bishop of Llandaff.
  • December 13 — Foundation stone of Llandovery College is laid.
  • A temperance festival is held at Carmarthen.

    • Awards

  • David Griffith (Clwydfardd) is appointed official bard of the Aberffraw eisteddfod. Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) is also invested as a bard.

    • New books

  • Anne Beale — Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry
  • Robert Elis (Cynddelw) — Yr Adgyfodiad
  • Lady Charlotte Guest concludes publication of her translation into English of the Mabinogion
  • Hugh Derfel Hughes — Y Gweithiwr Caniadgar
  • Rowland Hughes — Cyfarchiad Caredig i rai newydd ddychwelyd
  • John Jones (Talhaiarn) — Awdl y Greadigaeth
  • John Lloyd — The English Country Gentleman
  • Samuel Lewis — Topographical Dictionary of Wales
  • Thomas Stephens — The Literature of the Kymry

    • Music

  • Haleliwia (hymns)

    • Births

  • April 21 — Sir David Treharne Evans, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1907)
  • May 2
  • William Cadwaladr Davies, educationist (d. 1905)
  • Charles James Jackson, businessman and collector (d. 1923)

    • Deaths

  • March 21 — William Sherley Williams, Welsh-descended pioneer
  • September 16 — Thomas Jones, missionary, 39
  • December 5 — Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), poet, 88

    • References

    1849 in Wales Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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