1826 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1826 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- 30 January - Opening of the Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford.[1]
- 1 July - Opening of Telford's Conwy Suspension Bridge.
- Wrexham Maelor Hospital's predecessor founded.
- The Calvinistic Methodist "connexion" produces its Constitutional Deed. It incorporates all property (such as chapels) as the property of the connexion as a whole.
Arts and literature
New books
- Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion) - Golwg ar Gyflwr yr Iddewon, Cerdd[2]
- James Humphreys - Observations on the Actual State of the English Laws of Real Property, with the outlines of a Code
Music
- 24 May - John Parry (Bardd Alaw) is given a benefit concert by the Society of Cymmrodorion.
Births
- 13 January (in Ceylon) - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff (d. 1913)[3]
- 1 March - John Thomas, harpist (d. 1913)
- 8 May - George Osborne Morgan, lawyer (d. 1897)
- 11 May - David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader (d. 1891)
Deaths
- April - Ned Turner, prize-fighter, 34
- May (approximate) - Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda, 70[4]
- 18 December - Iolo Morganwg, poet and antiquary, 79
- 28 December - Nathaniel Williams, theologian and hymn-writer, 84
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References
- Strait MENAI (1832). The Tourists' Guide to the Shores of the Menai Straits ... With a Full ... Account of the Suspension Bridge; by J. Pring, etc. Chronicle Office. p. 20.
- Daniel EVANS (called Daniel Ddu o Geredigion.) (1826). Golwg ar Gyflwr yr Iddewon Cerdd. p. 3.
- The Law Times. Office of The Law Times. 1908. p. 267.
- Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Griffiths, Richard". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
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