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1850 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1850 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 5 March — Opening of the Britannia Bridge.
  • 16 June — Opening of the South Wales Railway between Chepstow and Swansea.
  • November — Launch of the periodical Y Drych.
  • 14 December — 13 men are killed in a mining accident at New Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.
  • G. T. Clark marries Ann Price Lewis, a descendant of one of the original partners in the Dowlais Ironworks.
  • The Llanelli Board of Health is founded, with William Chambers as its first chairman.
  • The Merthyr Board of Health is founded, with John Josiah Guest as its first chairman.

    • New books

  • Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch) — Geirlyfr Saesoneg a Chymraeg, An English and Welsh Dictionary
  • 'Elen Egryn' (Elin Evans) — Telyn Egryn (poems)
  • Elijah Waring — Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward Williams
  • Morris Williams (Nicander) — Y Psalmwyr

    • Births

  • 4 January — Griffith J. Griffith, industrialist (died 1919)
  • 16 April — Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (died 1885)

    • Deaths

  • 11 April
  • David Hughes, clergyman and writer, 64?
  • Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), poet, 77
  • 18 April — John Richards, Welsh-born US politician, 85
  • 19 April — Sir John Edwards of Garth, politician, 80
  • 11 July — Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet and hymn-writer, 83
  • 28 July — David Lewis, Carmarthenshire priest and writer, 90?
  • 2 September — Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, politician, 74
  • 19 December — George Williams, politician, 85

    • References

    1850 in Wales Wikipedia
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