1846 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1846 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 14 January - 35 men are killed in a mining accident at Risca.[1]
- March - A speech by William Williams, MP for Coventry, on the subject of education and the Welsh language leads to the commissioning of a report.
- 27 June - Thomas Frankland Lewis is created a baronet.[2]
- 1 August - Opening of the Aberdare railway.
- 3 August - Mary Cornelia Edwards of Plas Machynlleth marries George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry.[3]
- October - New bridge over the River Towy at Llandeilo collapses under construction.
- date unknown
- New cast-iron Llandinam Bridge in Montgomeryshire is opened.[4]
- The rebuilt Beaumaris Pier is partially opened.[5]
- Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones becomes mission president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales, concentrating the church's efforts around Merthyr Tydfil, publishing (from July) the Welsh language monthly Prophwyd y Jubili and also the tract Hanes Saint y Dyddiau Diweddaf.
- The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis.[6]
Arts and literature
New books
- Griffith Edwards (Gutyn Padarn) - Gwaith Prydyddawl
- Daniel Silvan Evans - Telynegion
- Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613...
- William Morgan (Gwilym Gelli-deg) - Cerbyd Awen
Music
- Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol (collection of hymns)
Births
- 8 January - Henry Bracy, tenor (d. 1917)
- 1 October - John Cadvan Davies, minister and poet (d. 1823)[7]
- 17 October - Mary Davies (Mair Eifion), poet (d. 1882)
- 24 November - Tom Hurry Riches, steam locomotive engineer (d. 1911)
- 6 December - James Charles, theologian (d. 1920)
- 28 December - William Frost, harpist (d. 1891)
- 3 August - Samuel M. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio (d. 1904)
Deaths
- 9 March - William Hughes, composer, 88
- 28 March - Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), poet, 53[8]
- 26 June - Honoratus Leigh Thomas, surgeon, 77[9]
- 29 July - John Owens, educational benefactor, 55[10]
- October - John Evans, surgeon and cartographer, 90[11]
- 3 December - Daniel Jones, missionary, 33
- 5 December - Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet, politician, 86[12]
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References
- "The late Fatal Explosion at Risca". Monmouthshire Merlin. Edward Dowling. 7 February 1846. hdl:10107/3425253.
- David Williams. "Lewis, Sir Thomas Frankland (1780-1855), politician". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- David Barnes (2005). The Companion Guide to Wales. Companion Guides. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-900639-43-9.
- David Morgan Rees (1975). The Industrial Archaeology of Wales. David & Charles. p. 270.
- Martin Easdown; Darlah Thomas (15 July 2010). Piers of Wales. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-4456-2385-6.
- Abraham Hume (1847). The Learned Societies and Printing Clubs of the United Kingdom: Being an Account of Their Respective Origin, History, Objects, and Constitution: with Full Details Respecting Membership, Fees, Their Published Works and Transactions, Notices of Their Periods and Places of Meeting, &c. and a General Introduction and a Classified Index. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 164.
- Edward Tegla Davies. "Davies, John Cadvan (Cadvan; 1846 - 1923), Wesleyan minister". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
- Jones, David Gwenallt. "Evans, Daniel (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; 1792–1846)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 September 2008.
- Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). . Dictionary of National Biography. 56. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
- Clapp, Brian W. (2004). "Owens, John (1790–1846), merchant and philanthropist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 11 October 2017. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- North, Frederick John. "Evans, John (1756–1846), surgeon". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
- The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England). F. Jefferies. 1847. p. 306.
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