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1855 in Wales

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

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1855 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 25 February — The steamship Morna is wrecked off North Bishop Rock, with the loss of 21 lives.
  • 30 March — The Severn ferry from Chepstow sinks, and seven people drown.
  • 8 September — At the Siege of Sevastopool in the Crimean War, Corporal Robert Shields of the 23rd Regiment of Foot recovers a fatally wounded officer from an exposed position, an action for which he will become the first Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross.
  • Construction of the first section of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway begins.

    • New books

  • John Jones (Talhaiarn) — Gwaith Talhaiarn, vol. 1
  • William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) — Gweithiau Barddonol Gwilym Hiraethog
  • William Williams (Creuddynfab) — Y Barddoniadur

    • Music

  • Death of James Green of Bron y Garth, last of the traditional crwth players.

    • Births

  • 11 February — Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player (died 1889)
  • 16 August — William David Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1918)
  • 11 December — David Thomas Ffrangcon Davies, singer (died 1918)
  • date unknown — Jeremiah Jones, poet (died 1902)

    • Deaths

  • 21 January - Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd), poet, 59
  • 22 January — Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician, 74
  • 9 February — William Chambers, industrialist, 81
  • 28 June — FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, 66
  • probable
  • Richard Jones, printer and publisher, ?68
  • William Edwards (Gwilym Callestr), poet

    • References

    1855 in Wales Wikipedia
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