1840 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1840 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1840 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

1 January - Trial of Chartists John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones for their part in the Newport Rising of 1839 continues at Monmouth[1] before Chief Justice Tindal. This is the first trial where proceedings are recorded in shorthand.
16 January - Frost, Williams and Jones are all found guilty of high treason for their part in the Chartist riots,[2] and are sentenced to death - the last time the sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering is passed in the United Kingdom, although following a nationwide petitioning campaign and, extraordinarily, direct lobbying of the Home Secretary by the Lord Chief Justice, it is commuted to transportation for life (and Frost is much later pardoned).
5 June - Joseph Brown is appointed Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic District of Wales, being consecrated as a bishop on 28 October.
8 October - Taff Vale Railway is officially opened, the first steam-worked passenger railway in Wales, running from Cardiff docks to Navigation House at Abercynon via the Cardiff station known in modern days as Queen Street.[3][4] Public service begins the following day.
30 October - First branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales formed in Flintshire.[5]
18 November - The paddle steamer City of Bristol is wrecked at Llangennith, Gower, drowning about 22 people.[6]
Approximate date - Rebuilding of Gregynog Hall with extensive use of concrete begins.[7]

7 February - Charles Warren, military and police officer and archaeologist (died 1927)
26 February - John Cynddylan Jones, theologian (died 1930)
14 April - Evan Jones (Gurnos), poet and musician (died 1903)
21 June - Sir John Rhŷs, educationist (died 1915)
16 September - Alfred Thomas, 1st Baron Pontypridd (died 1927)
29 November - Rhoda Broughton, novelist (died 1920)
3 December - Francis Kilvert, diarist (died 1879)
5 December - John E. Jones, governor of Nevada (died 1896)
17 December - Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician (died 1935)
24 December - Jabez Edmund Jenkins, poet (died 1903)

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Frost, John (1839). Trial of John Frost for high treason: revised by a Barrister. p. 19.
Maunder, Samuel; Cox, George William (1856). The Treasury of History (New ed.). Longman & Co. pp. 499–.
Barrie, D. S. (1950). The Taff Vale Railway. Oakwood Press.
Edward Cresy (1847). An Encyclopædia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical. Paternoster-Row: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. pp. 595.
"Wales". Retrieved 10 June 2014.
Bennett, Tom. Shipwrecks for Walkers 1: A Walkers Guide to Beach Wrecks Around Britain. Author. pp. 28–. GGKEY:EA61KY0D96E.
Hughes, Glyn Tegai; Morgan, Prys; Thomas, J. Gareth (1977). Gregynog. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-0634-5.

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