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1851 in Wales

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

Decades:
  
1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1851 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 24 September — Vale of Neath Railway opens from Neath to Aberdare.
  • August — William Bulkeley Hughes hosts a banquet at Bangor for Robert Stephenson.
  • Richard Fothergill III is prosecuted for running a "truck shop" at Aberdare.
  • David Davies (Llandinam) marries Margaret Jones of Llanfair Caereinion.

    • New books

  • John Blackwell (Alun) — Ceinion Alun (posthumously published)
  • Richard Williams Morgan — A Tragedy of Powys Castle

    • Music

  • Thomas Jones (Gogrynwr) — Gweddi Habacuc (cantata)
  • John Ambrose Lloyd — Teyrnasoedd y Ddaear (anthem)
  • John Owen (Owain Alaw)
  • Deborah a Barac (anthem)
  • Gweddi Habacuc (cantata)

    • Births

  • 8 February — Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet (d. 1933)
  • 10 March — William Haggar, pioneer of the film industry (d. 1925)
  • 24 March — Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan) (d. 1906)
  • 15 June — Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist (d. 1932)
  • 8 July — Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist (d. 1941)
  • 12 July — Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, promoter of women's education (died 1925)
  • 27 December — Percy Gilchrist, industrialist

    • Deaths

  • 6 April — William Morgan Kinsey, travel writer, 62?
  • 30 June — Thomas Phillips, founder of Llandovery College, 80
  • 17 July — Aneurin Owen, historian, 58
  • 22 November — Thomas Morgan, navy chaplain, 81

    • References

    1851 in Wales Wikipedia
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