1842 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1842 to Wales and its people.

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Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
See also:
1842 in
The United Kingdom
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events
  • 12 April – Chartist Convention meets in London to arrange to submit another petition to parliament. Delegates include Morgan Williams, who brings with him a petition signed by 36,000 people from south Wales.
  • 7 May – John Bennion of Flintshire, and his wife Elizabeth, arrive in Nauvoo on the John Cummins to join the Mormon community.
  • 12 June – The first Welsh language service in Waukesha County, USA, is held at Bronyberllan, home of Richard "King" Jones.
  • July
  • August – Workers at Cyfarthfa and Penydarren ironworks join the general strike.
  • 30 August – Sir William Nott defeats the Afghans at Ghazni.[2]
  • 10 October – The Town Dock at Newport is opened.[3]
  • date unknown
    • Missionary Thomas Jones produces his first Khasi Reader and his translation of a Welsh-language work Rhodd Mam ("A Mother's Gift") into the Khasi language.[4]
    • A Royal Commission chaired by Robert Hugh Franks reports on the employment of children in the coal industry in South Wales. They find that children as young as six are working twelve-hour shifts underground.
    • A stone viaduct is built to carry the Glyncorrwg Railway.[5]
    • Henry Robertson arrives in Wales to work as an engineer. Later he settles near Wrexham and builds Palé Hall.
    • John Cory and his family move to the docks area of Cardiff and open a ship's chandlery business.[6]
    • Henry Hussey Vivian takes over the management of the Liverpool branch of the firm of Vivian and Sons.
    • A Calvinistic Methodist mission to "the Welsh people in France" is established by Rev James Williams and his wife in Brittany.[7]
    • Two explosions at the Blackvein Colliery in Crosskeys result in a total of five deaths.

Arts and literature

New books

Music

Births
  • 12 February – Megan Watts Hughes, singer (died 1907)[9]
  • 11 March – Sarah Edith Wynne, singer (died 1897)
  • 15 April – John Hughes (Glanystwyth), minister (died 1902)
  • 14 June – William Abraham (Mabon), politician (died 1922)
  • 28 September – William John Parry, quarrymen's leader (died 1927)
  • 31 October – Moses Owen Jones, musician (died 1908)
  • 19 December – Daniel Thomas Phillips, minister and American consul (died 1905)

Deaths

References
  1. Paul O'Leary (15 October 2012). Claiming the Streets: Processions and Urban Culture in South Wales, C.1830-1880. University of Wales Press. p. 194. ISBN 978-1-78316-275-8.
  2. Tony Jaques (2007). Dictionary of Battles and Sieges: F-O. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 392. ISBN 978-0-313-33538-9.
  3. Charles Frederick CLIFFE (1848). The Book of South Wales, the Bristol Channel, Monmouthshire and the Wye ... Illustrated with maps and engravings. Hamilton, Adams & Company. p. 85.
  4. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Thomas (1810-1849), the first Calvinistic Methodist missionary on the Khasia Hills (Assam)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 18 April 2019.
  5. Stephen Hughes (1990). The Archaeology of an Early Railway System: The Brecon Forest Tramroads. Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales. p. 325. ISBN 978-1-871184-05-1.
  6. Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 121. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.
  7. Sir Thomas Phillips (1849). Wales: The Language, Social Condition, Moral Character, and Religious Opinions of the People, Considered in Their Relation to Education: Withsome Account of the Provsion Made for Education in Other Parts of the Kingdom. J. W. Parker. p. 570.
  8. Wales - Zygophyllaceae. 1843. p. 222.
  9. James Duff Brown; Stephen Samuel Stratton (1897). British Musical Biography: A Dictionary of Musical Artists, Authors, and Composers Born in Britain and Its Colonies. S.S. Stratton.
  10. Report of the general meeting of the Camden Society for the publication of early historical and literary remains ... on Tuesday the 2nd May 1843: (Council.) Acc. 1, Works of the Camden Society. 2, Laws of the Camden Society. 3, Members of the Camden Society for the fifth year, ending 2 May 1843. 1843. p. 1.
  11. "JONES, John (1777-1842), of Ystrad Lodge, Carm". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
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