1835 in Wales

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Decades:	1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1835 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1835 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - vacant
Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

8 January - Sir Joseph Bailey is elected MP for Worcester.
19 February - In the United Kingdom general election, newly elected MPs in Wales include Wilson Jones at Denbigh Boroughs.[1]
March - At a public meeting in the King's Head Inn, Newport, plans for a floating dock are agreed.
July - The Newport Dock Act receives the royal assent.[2]
September - John Frost is one of the first councillors elected in Newport under the terms of the Municipal Reform Act.
1 December - John Owen, mayor of Newport, cuts the first sod as construction begins on Newport Docks.
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- The steam whistle, invented by Adrian Stephens two years earlier, is seen in operation at Dowlais ironworks and is adopted by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway shortly afterwards.[3]
- Adam Sedgwick names the Cambrian period in geology.[4]

Arts and literature

The Royal Institution of South Wales is established as the Swansea Philosophical and Literary Society.

New books

Y Fwyalchen (poetry anthology)
Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis - The Lyvys of the Seyntys

Music

Anglesey Musical Society holds its first festival.
John Roberts (Alaw Elwy) plays the harp for Queen Adelaide at Winchester.

Births

5 April (in Trowbridge) – Solomon Andrews, entrepreneur (d. 1908)
10 May – John Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe, industrialist (d. 1913)
14 July – John Roberts, politician (d. 1894)
7 August – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist (d. 1935)
29 August – Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (d. 1914)

Deaths

13 May – John Nash, architect, 83
16 May – Felicia Hemans, poet, 41
4 June – William Owen Pughe, grammarian and lexicographer, 75
1 December – Robert Davies (Robin Ddu o'r Glyn), poet, 66
29 December – Richard Llwyd, poet, 83

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References

Richard Bartholomew Mosse (1837). The parliamentary guide, a concise biography of the members of both houses of parliament. pp. 184.
Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons. Ordered to be printed. 1846. p. 318.
Henry Evers (1878). Steam and the Steam Engine: Land, Marine, and Locomotive. W. Collins. pp. 256.
Murchison, R. I.; Sedgwick, A. (1835). "On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems". Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: 59–61.

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[1] Richard Bartholomew Mosse (1837). The parliamentary guide, a concise biography of the members of both houses of parliament. pp. 184.

[2] Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons. Ordered to be printed. 1846. p. 318.

[3] Henry Evers (1878). Steam and the Steam Engine: Land, Marine, and Locomotive. W. Collins. pp. 256.

[4] Murchison, R. I.; Sedgwick, A. (1835). "On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems". Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: 59–61.