1841 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1841 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria (from December 8)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- 20 February - The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead with the loss of 123 lives.
- 9 March - The first known photograph is taken in Wales, of Margam Castle by Calvert Jones.
- 12 April - The Taff Vale Railway is extended to Merthyr Tydfil
- 26 July - The proprietors of The Skerries Lighthouse off Anglesey, the last privately owned light in the British Isles, are awarded £444,984 in compensation for its sale to Trinity House.
- 19 August - In the United Kingdom general election, William Edwards stands as a Chartist candidate in Monmouth Boroughs and becomes the only Parliamentary candidate in Wales, ever, not to win a single vote.
- Founding of Bala-Bangor Congregational College.
- Poor Law Amendment Act is passed, largely thanks to the efforts of Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
- Mordecai Jones opens a brewery at Brecon.
- The Brymbo ironworks are bought out of Chancery after a long period of litigation and reopened by a limited company.
- Opening of Swansea Museum by the Royal Institution of South Wales.
Arts and literature
New books
- David Owen (Brutus) - Gweithrediadau yr Eglwys Sefydledig
- Welsh Book of Common Prayer (new edition)
Music
Births
- 28 January - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (died 1904)
- 14 February
- Sir John Gibson, journalist (died 1915)
- William Reginald Herbert, horseman (died 1929)
- 5 April - Robert Rees, singer and musician (died 1892)
- 23 April - Henry Hughes, minister and historian (died 1924)
- 21 May - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
- 26 June (in London) - James Cholmeley Russell, railway entrepreneur (died 1912)
- 9 November (in London) - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII (died 1910)
Deaths
- 17 January - David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet, 56
- 12 May - Joseph Tudor Hughes, harpist, 13 (drowning)
- 19 May - John Blackwell (Alun), poet, 42
- 24 May - Thomas Roberts, Llwyn'rhudol, co-founder of Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion
- 8 June - John Elias, preacher, 67
- 4 December - David Daniel Davis, physician, 64