1844 in Wales
Encyclopedia
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales
and its people
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
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Incumbents
- Prince of WalesPrince of WalesPrince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
- Edward AlbertEdward VII of the United KingdomEdward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...
, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom - Princess of WalesPrincess of WalesPrincess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
- vacant
Events
- January 1 - 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, RhonddaRhonddaRhondda , or the Rhondda Valley , is a former coal mining valley in Wales, formerly a local government district, consisting of 16 communities built around the River Rhondda. The valley is made up of two valleys, the larger Rhondda Fawr valley and the smaller Rhondda Fach valley...
. - February 14 - 40 men are killed by flooding in a coal-mine at Landslipping, PembrokeshirePembrokeshirePembrokeshire is a county in the south west of Wales. It borders Carmarthenshire to the east and Ceredigion to the north east. The county town is Haverfordwest where Pembrokeshire County Council is headquartered....
. - May 13 - 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston.
- December 3 - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
- A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western RailwayGreat Western RailwayThe Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...
at Standish in Gloucestershire. - Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.
Music
- Rowland PrichardRowland PrichardRowland Huw Prichard was a Welsh musician. A native of Graienyn, near Bala, he lived most of his life in the area, serving for a time as a loom tender's assistant in Holywell, where he died...
- Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend) - Maria Jane WilliamsMaria Jane WilliamsMaria Jane Williams was an 18th century Welsh musician and folklorist born at Aberpergwm House, Glynneath in Glamorgan, south Wales.-Life:Maria Jane Williams was born in 1794, or 1795, at Aberpergwm House, Glynneath...
- Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg
Births
- March 7 - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905)
- April 28 - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
- June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887)
- July 28 - Gerard Manley HopkinsGerard Manley HopkinsGerard Manley Hopkins, S.J. was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous 20th-century fame established him among the leading Victorian poets...
, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889) - December 1 - Alexandra of DenmarkAlexandra of DenmarkAlexandra of Denmark was the wife of Edward VII of the United Kingdom...
, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)
Deaths
- January 18 - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69
- November 23 - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83