1849 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1849 to Wales and its people.

← 1848 1847 1846 1845 1844 1849 in Wales → 1850 1851 1852 1853 1854
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1849 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

• 2 January – Completion of both tubes of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.
• 26 February – Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones embarks with 249 Welsh converts to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bound for Salt Lake City from Liverpool.[1]
• 13 May – A case of cholera is recorded in Cardiff, the beginning of an outbreak that spreads to Merthyr, Dowlais and Aberdare, and kills 800 people.
• 20 June – First tube of Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge is floated into position on the Menai Strait.[2]
• 1 November – Alfred Ollivant becomes Bishop of Llandaff.
• 13 December – Foundation stone of Llandovery College is laid.
• A temperance festival is held at Carmarthen.

Arts and literature

Awards

• David Griffith (Clwydfardd) is appointed official bard of the Aberffraw eisteddfod. Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) is also invested as a bard.

New books

• Anne Beale – Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry
• Robert Elis (Cynddelw) – Yr Adgyfodiad
• Lady Charlotte Guest concludes publication of her translation into English of the Mabinogion
• Hugh Derfel Hughes – Y Gweithiwr Caniadgar
• Rowland Hughes – Cyfarchiad Caredig i rai newydd ddychwelyd
• John Jones (Talhaiarn) – Awdl y Greadigaeth
• John Lloyd – The English Country Gentleman
• Samuel Lewis – Topographical Dictionary of Wales
• Thomas Stephens – The Literature of the Kymry

Music

• Haleliwia (hymns)

Births

• 21 April – Sir David Treharne Evans, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1907)
• 2 May
  • William Cadwaladr Davies, educationist (d. 1905)
  • Charles James Jackson, businessman and collector (d. 1923)

Deaths

• 16 September – Thomas Jones, missionary, 39
• 2 October – James Davies, schoolmaster, 83[3]
• 2 November – Jacob Davies, missionary, 33[4]
• 5 December – Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), poet, 88

References

1. Williams, David (2009). "Jones, Daniel". Welsh Biography Online. Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
2. "Britannia Bridge". Engineering Timelines. Retrieved 10 June 2014.
3. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davies, James (1765-1849)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
4. Williams, Griffith John. "Jacob Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 May 2017.