1841 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1841 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

19 February - The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead after colliding with a steamer, 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 ÃÂ£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.
8 December - The month-old Albert Edward, eldest son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, is created Prince of Wales by letters patent.
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Founding of Bala-Bangor Congregational College.
Poor Law Amendment Act 1841 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.
Land is earmarked by Welsh immigrants in Ohio for the building of Tyn Rhos Chapel.

28 January - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (as John Rowlands; 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)
29 April - Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, soldier (died 1925)
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 of the United Kingdom (died 1910)