1844 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.

1844
in
Wales

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1820s
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
See also:
1844 in
The United Kingdom
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events

  • 1 January - 11 or 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.[1]
  • 14 February - 40 men are killed by flooding in a coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire.
  • 8 March - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) embarks on the "Blundell" for transportation to Norfolk Island, his sentence for shooting at a man during the Rebecca Riots.[2]
  • 13 May - 7 or 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston.[3]
  • 3 December - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
  • 31 December - David Williams takes out a lease on a mine at Cwmbach, in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed.[4]
  • date unknown
    • A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire.[5]
    • Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.[6]

Arts and literature

New books

Music

Visual arts

  • English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.

Sport

Births

Deaths

  • 18 January - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69
  • 7 April - Morgan Lewis, Welsh-descended American politician, 89
  • 8 November - Iltid Nicholl, lawyer, 67/68
  • 23 November - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83
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References

  1. The Cambrian: A Magazine for the Welsh in America. D.I. Jones. 1893. p. 330.
  2. David Williams. "Jones, John (fl. 1811-1858; 'Shoni Sguborfawr'), Rebecca rioter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  3. The Illustrated London News. Leighton. 1844. p. 16.
  4. Watkin William Price. "Williams, David (Alaw Goch; 1809-1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  5. The Supplement to the Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: Habenaria- Ginziber. 2. C. Knight. 1846. p. 680.
  6. Emyr Hywel Owen. "Roberts, Owen Owen (1793-1866), physician and social reformer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
  7. Denbigh Cricket Club website. Accessed 21 March 2013
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