1844 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 1 January - 11 or 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.[1]
- 14 February - 40 men are killed by flooding in a coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire.
- 8 March - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) embarks on the "Blundell" for transportation to Norfolk Island, his sentence for shooting at a man during the Rebecca Riots.[2]
- 13 May - 7 or 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston.[3]
- 3 December - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
- 31 December - David Williams takes out a lease on a mine at Cwmbach, in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed.[4]
- date unknown
- A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire.[5]
- Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.[6]
Arts and literature
New books
- Hugh Derfel Hughes - Blodau'r Gân
- David Owen (Brutus) - Eliasia
Music
- Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend)
- Maria Jane Williams - Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg
Visual arts
- English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.
Sport
Births
- 1 January - Robert Clayton, cricketer (died 1901)
- 7 March - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905)
- 28 April - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
- June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887)
- 28 July - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)
- 3 August - Herbert Armitage James, clergyman and schoolmaster (died 1931)
- 1 December - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)
Deaths
- 18 January - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69
- 7 April - Morgan Lewis, Welsh-descended American politician, 89
- 8 November - Iltid Nicholl, lawyer, 67/68
- 23 November - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83
References
- ^ The Cambrian: A Magazine for the Welsh in America. D.I. Jones. 1893. p. 330.
- ^ David Williams. "Jones, John (fl. 1811-1858; 'Shoni Sguborfawr'), Rebecca rioter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ^ The Illustrated London News. Leighton. 1844. p. 16.
- ^ Watkin William Price. "Williams, David (Alaw Goch; 1809-1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ^ The Supplement to the Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: Habenaria- Ginziber. 2. C. Knight. 1846. p. 680.
- ^ Emyr Hywel Owen. "Roberts, Owen Owen (1793-1866), physician and social reformer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ^ Denbigh Cricket Club website. Accessed 21 March 2013