1839 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1839 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1839 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

March – John Frost, former mayor of Newport, is deprived of his position as a magistrate because of his Chartist sympathies.
30 April – Chartists riot in Llanidloes and seize control of the town for five days.
7 May – Henry Vincent is arrested after addressing a Chartist meeting and taken to prison at Monmouth.^[1]
13 May – Beginning of the Rebecca Riots.
25 July – William Ewart Gladstone marries Catherine Glynne of Hawarden.
28 August – Mary Anne Lewis, widow of Cardiff MP Wyndham Lewis, marries Benjamin Disraeli.^[2]
5 October – Opening of West Bute Dock.
4 November – Newport Rising: between 5,000 and 10,000 Chartist sympathisers led by John Frost, many of them coal miners, march on the Westgate Hotel in Newport, Monmouthshire, to liberate Chartist prisoners; around 22 are killed when troops, directed by Thomas Phillips, the mayor, fire on the crowd.^[3] This is the last large-scale armed civil rebellion against authority in mainland Britain and sees the most deaths.
23 November – Zephaniah Williams, one of the leaders of the Chartist march on Newport, is arrested on board ship at Cardiff.^[4]
date unknown – Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis resigns as chairman of the Poor Law Commission, to be replaced by his son, George Cornewall Lewis.

9 January – Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer (d. 1916)
13 February – Robert Bird, politician (d. 1909)
7 March – Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist (d. 1909)
31 March – Thomas Henry Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn) later known as T. H. Thomas, artist (d. 1915)
24 September – John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor (d. 1931)

^ A Gwent Anthology. Christopher Davies. 1988. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-7154-0655-7.
^ Paul Smith (12 September 1996). Disraeli: A Brief Life. Cambridge University Press. pp. 37. ISBN 978-0-521-38150-5.
^ "John Lovell and the People's Charter". The struggle for democracy. Kew: The National Archives. 2003. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
^ David Egan (1 January 1987). People, Protest, and Politics: Case Studies in Nineteenth Century Wales. Gomer Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-86383-350-2.