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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1849 to Wales and its people.
Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
Princess of Wales – vacant
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.
David Griffith (Clwydfardd) is appointed official bard of the Aberffraw eisteddfod. Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) is also invested as a bard.
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
Haleliwia (hymns)
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)
March 21 — William Sherley Williams, Welsh-descended pioneer
September 16 — Thomas Jones, missionary, 39
December 5 — Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), poet, 88
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