1848 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1848 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 1 March – Llandovery College opens in the building known as the "Depot".
- 1 May – Opening for Chester and Holyhead Railway traffic of the first tube of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.[1]
- 1 August – Opening of an isolated section of the Chester and Holyhead Railway across Anglesey from Llanfair to Holyhead.[1]
- 24 August – The American barque Ocean Monarch catches fire off Colwyn Bay, with the loss of 178 lives.
- 24 October – Trinity College, Carmarthen is established (as the South Wales and Monmouthshire Training College), to train teachers for the Church of England.
- 14 November – Opening of the North Wales County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (North Wales Hospital), Denbigh.
- The new Llandeilo Bridge is completed, with a span of 145 feet (44 m) over the River Towy.
- Michael D. Jones becomes a minister in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Arts and literature
New books
- John Hughes - The Self-Searcher
- John Jenkins - National Education
- Richard Williams Morgan - Maynooth and St. Asaph
- Edward Parry - Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead
Music
- Robert Herbert Williams - Alawydd Trefriw
Visual arts
- John Evan Thomas - Death of Tewdric Mawr, King of Gwent (sculpture)
Births
- 23 January – Daniel James, bardic poet and lyricist of Calon Lân (died 1920)
- 12 February – Beriah Gwynfe Evans, journalist and dramatist (died 1927)
- 18 September – Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)
- 5 October – Sir John Purser Griffiths, civil engineer (died 1938)
- 2 November – Alfred Edwards, first Archbishop of Wales (died 1917)
- 30 December – David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)
- Charles Ashton police officer, literary historian and bibliophile (suicide 1899)
Deaths
- 17 January – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 63 (accidentally shot by his son)
- 18 March – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff, 54
- 27 March – William Ellis Jones, poet, 52
- 2 April – Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquary, 64
- 7 November – Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian, 61
References
- ^ a b Baughan, Peter E. (1972). The Chester & Holyhead Railway. Vol. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5617-8.