1849 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1849 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May)
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite

• Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
• Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston (until 14 October); Alfred Ollivant (from 2 December)
• Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

Events

• 2 January – Completion of both tubes of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.
• 26 February – Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones embarks with 249 Welsh converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bound for Salt Lake City from Liverpool.
• 13 May – A case of cholera is recorded in Cardiff, the beginning of an outbreak that spreads to Merthyr, Dowlais and Aberdare, and kills 800 people.
• 20 June – First tube of Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge is floated into position on the Menai Strait.
• 10 August – Underground explosion at Lletty Shenkin colliery, Cwmbach, kills 52.
• 1 November – Alfred Ollivant becomes Bishop of Llandaff.
• 13 December – Foundation stone of Llandovery College is laid.
• A temperance festival is held at Carmarthen.

Arts and literature

Awards

• David Griffith (Clwydfardd) is appointed official bard of the Aberffraw eisteddfod. Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) is also invested as a bard.

New books

English language

• Anne Beale – Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry
• Lady Charlotte Guest concludes publication of her translation into English of the Mabinogion
• John Lloyd – The English Country Gentleman
• Samuel Lewis – Topographical Dictionary of Wales
• Thomas Stephens – The Literature of the Kymry

Welsh language

• Robert Elis (Cynddelw) – Yr Adgyfodiad
• Hugh Derfel Hughes – Y Gweithiwr Caniadgar
• Rowland Hughes – Cyfarchiad Caredig i rai newydd ddychwelyd
• John Jones (Talhaiarn) – Awdl y Greadigaeth

Music

• Haleliwia (hymns)

Births

• 2 May – Charles James Jackson, businessman and collector (died 1923)
• 17 September – Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)

Deaths

• 14 March – Old Bill Williams, Welsh-born mountain man, 62
• 14 August – Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, 73
• 16 September – Thomas Jones, missionary, 39
• 2 October – James Davies, schoolmaster, 83
• 2 November – Jacob Davies, missionary, 33
• 5 December – Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), poet, 88

See also

• 1849 in Ireland

References