Events

• April - Completion of the Blaenau Ffestiniog
  Blaenau Ffestiniog
  Blaenau Ffestiniog is a town in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It has a population of 5,000, including Llan Ffestiniog, which makes it the third largest town in Gwynedd, behind Caernarfon & Porthmadog. Although the population reached 12,000 at the peak of the slate industry, the population fell due to...
  
   Railway, the first narrow-gauge railway in the world.
• 10 May – 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire
  Mold, Flintshire
  Mold is a town in Flintshire, North Wales, on the River Alyn. It is the administrative seat of Flintshire County Council, and was also the county town of Clwyd from 1974 to 1996...
  
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• 21 June - An Act of Parliament is passed, allowing the construction of the Taff Vale Railway
  Taff Vale Railway
  The Taff Vale Railway is a railway in Glamorgan, South Wales, and is one of the oldest in Wales. It operated as an independent company from 1836 until 1922, when it became a constituent company of the Great Western Railway...
  
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• Crawshay Bailey
  Crawshay Bailey
  Crawshay Bailey was an English industrialist who became one of the great iron-masters of Wales.-Early life:Bailey was born in 1789 in Great Wenham, Suffolk, the son of John Bailey, of Wakefield and his wife Susannah...
  
   buys the Aberaman
  Aberaman
  Aberaman is a village near Aberdare in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, south Wales.-Schools:*Blaengwawr Comprehensive School *Blaengwawr Primary *Oaklands Primary -Sport:...
  
   estate from the family of Anthony Bacon
  Anthony Bacon (industrialist)
  Anthony Bacon was an English-born merchant and industrialist who was significantly responsible for the emergence of Merthyr Tydfil as the iron-smelting centre of Britain.-Background:...
  
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• Humphrey Gwalchmai launches the periodical Yr Athraw.
• The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites
  The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites
  The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites commonly referred to as the Ivorites Society or The Ivorites was a friendly society founded in Wrexham, Wales in 1836.-History:...
  
   is established in Wrexham by Thomas Robert Jones, it is Wales' first friendly society
  Friendly society
  A friendly society is a mutual association for insurance, pensions or savings and loan-like purposes, or cooperative banking. It is a mutual organization or benefit society composed of a body of people who join together for a common financial or social purpose...
  
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• The final known duel takes place in Wales, between MP Sir John Owen
  Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
  Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet , born John Lord, was a British Tory, later Conservative Party, politician from Wales who was a Member of Parliament for over fifty years....
  
   and former Tenby mayor William Richards. Richards is badly wounded.

New books

• Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc)
  Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc)
  Reverend Thomas Price was a historian and a major Welsh literary figure of the early 19th century....
  
   - Hanes Cymru a Chenedl y Cymry o'r Cynoesoedd hyd at Farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 1
• Rice Rees
  Rice Rees
  Rice Rees was a Welsh cleric and historian.-Life:Rees was born at Ton, near Llandovery, Carmarthenshire, Wales, and christened in the local Independent chapel. From 1819, he was educated for a short time at Lampeter grammar school, under Eliezer Williams, before being educated at home and by his...
  
   - An Essay on the Welsh Saints
• Thomas Roscoe - Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales
• Samuel Prideaux Tregelles
  Samuel Prideaux Tregelles
  Samuel Prideaux Tregelles was an English biblical scholar, textual critic, and theologian.- Life :Tregelles was born at Wodehouse Place, Falmouth, of Quaker parents, but he himself for many years was in communion with the Plymouth Brethren and then later in life became a Presbyterian...
  
   - Passages in the Old Testament connected with the Revelation
• John Williams (Ab Ithel) - Eglwys Loegr yn Anymddibynol ar Eglwys Rhufain

Births

• 15 March - Griffith Jones (Glan Menai), teacher and author (d. 1906)
• 1 April - John Owen, balladeer (d. 1915)
• 26 May - Sir John Dillwyn-Llewellyn, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1927)
• 5 July - Evan Herber Evans
  Evan Herber Evans
  Evan Herber Evans , was a Welsh Nonconformist minister.Evans was born at Pant-yr-onen near Betws Ifan in Ceredigion. As a boy he saw something of the Rebecca Riots, and went to school at the neighboring village of Llechryd. In 1853 he went into business, first at Pontypridd and then at Merthyr...
  
  , Nonconformist leader (d. 1896)
• 6 October - Allen Raine
  Allen Raine
  Allen Raine was the pseudonym of the Welsh novelist Anne Adalisa Beynon Puddicombe .She was born Anne Adalisa Evans in Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, the daughter of a lawyer Benjamin and Letitia Grace Evans...
  
  , novelist (d. 1908)
• 20 October - Daniel Owen
  Daniel Owen
  Daniel Owen was a Welsh novelist, generally regarded as the foremost Welsh-language novelist of the 19th century.-Early life:...
  
  , novelist (d. 1895)
• 9 November
  • Isaac Foulkes, newspaper proprietor (d. 1904)
  • Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen, politician (d. 1905)

Deaths

• 11 August - William Williams (Gwilym Twrog), poet, 67
• 24 August Sir Christopher Cole
  Christopher Cole (Royal Navy officer)
  Captain Sir Christopher Cole KCB was a prominent officer of the British Royal Navy who served in the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars...
  
  , Royal Navy officer and politician
• 22 November - Peter Bailey Williams
  Peter Bailey Williams
  Peter Bayley Williams was a Welsh Anglican priest and amateur antiquarian.-Life:Williams was the son of Peter Williams, a Welsh Calvinist Methodist clergyman and biblical commentator, and was born in Llandyfaelog, Carmarthenshire, west Wales...
  
  , clergyman and writer, 73