1854 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1854 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1854 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

• 31 October — David Davies (Dai'r Cantwr) receives a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.
• 5 November — At the Battle of Inkerman, Hugh Rowlands carries out the actions that lead to his becoming the first Welshman to win the Victoria Cross.
• 11 November — In Australia, Welsh-born John Basson Humffray is elected the first president of the Ballarat Reform League.
• Betsi Cadwaladr volunteers to serve as a nurse in the Crimean War.
• Love Jones-Parry is High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire.
• The Telegraphic Despatch is published in Swansea, the first newspaper in Wales to come out more than once a week.
• John Williams (Ab Ithel) becomes editor of the Cambrian Journal.
• A penny newspaper, the Herald Cymraeg, is founded at Caernarfon, with James Evans as editor.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Edwards (Eos Glan Twrch) — Llais o'r Llwyn: sef Barddoniaeth, ar Amryfal Destynau
• Samuel Evans (Gomerydd) — Y Gomerydd
• Owen Wynne Jones — Fy Oriau Hamddenol
• Thomas Prichard — The Heroines of Welsh History
• William Thomas (Islwyn) — Barddoniaeth
• Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — Account of the Printed Text of the New Testament

Music

• Y Blwch Cerddorol (collection of hymns and anthems)

Births

• 8 April — Robert Arthur Williams (Berw), clergyman and poet (died 1926)
• 17 April — Sir John Eldon Bankes, judge (died 1946)
• 30 April — William Critchlow Harris, Welsh-Canadian architect (died 1913)
• 10 July — John Lloyd Williams, botanist and composer (died 1945)
• 22 September — John Fox Tallis, mining engineer (died 1925)
• 16 December — J. D. Rees, colonial administrator (died 1922)

Deaths

• 14 January — Charles Rodney Morgan, politician, 25
• 3 April — Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn, politician, 85
• 10 April — William Edward Powell, politician, 66
• 29 April — Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, soldier and politician,85
• 24 May — John Rowlands of Y Llys, alleged father of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 39
• 12 November — Charles Kemble, actor, 79
• 28 December — Rowland Williams, clergyman and writer, 75