1835 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1835 to Wales and its people.

← 1834 1833 1832 1831 1830 1835 in Wales → 1836 1837 1838 1839 1840
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1835 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 8 January - Sir Joseph Bailey is elected MP for Worcester.
• 19 February - In the United Kingdom general election, newly elected MPs in Wales include Wilson Jones at Denbigh Boroughs.[1]
• March - At a public meeting in the King's Head Inn, Newport, plans for a floating dock are agreed.
• July - The Newport Dock Act receives the royal assent.[2]
• September - John Frost is one of the first councillors elected in Newport under the terms of the Municipal Reform Act.
• 1 December - John Owen, mayor of Newport, cuts the first sod as construction begins on Newport Docks.
• date unknown
  • The steam whistle, invented by Adrian Stephens two years earlier, is seen in operation at Dowlais ironworks and is adopted by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway shortly afterwards.[3]
  • Adam Sedgwick names the Cambrian period in geology.[4]

Arts and literature

• The Royal Institution of South Wales is established as the Swansea Philosophical and Literary Society.

New books

• Y Fwyalchen (poetry anthology)
• Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis - The Lyvys of the Seyntys

Music

• Anglesey Musical Society holds its first festival.
• John Roberts (Alaw Elwy) plays the harp for Queen Adelaide at Winchester.

Births

• 5 April (in Trowbridge) – Solomon Andrews, entrepreneur (d. 1908)
• 10 May – John Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe, industrialist (d. 1913)
• 14 July – John Roberts, politician (d. 1894)
• 7 August – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist (d. 1935)
• 29 August – Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (d. 1914)

Deaths

• 13 May – John Nash, architect, 83
• 16 May – Felicia Hemans, poet, 41
• 4 June – William Owen Pughe, grammarian and lexicographer, 75
• 1 December – Robert Davies (Robin Ddu o'r Glyn), poet, 66
• 29 December – Richard Llwyd, poet, 83

References

1. Richard Bartholomew Mosse (1837). The parliamentary guide, a concise biography of the members of both houses of parliament. pp. 184.
2. Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons. Ordered to be printed. 1846. p. 318.
3. Henry Evers (1878). Steam and the Steam Engine: Land, Marine, and Locomotive. W. Collins. pp. 256.
4. Murchison, R. I.; Sedgwick, A. (1835). "On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems". Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: 59–61.