1835 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1835 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 8 January - Sir Joseph Bailey is elected MP for Worcester.
• 19 February - In the United Kingdom general election, newly elected MPs in Wales include Wilson Jones at Denbigh Boroughs.
• March - At a public meeting in the King's Head Inn, Newport, plans for a floating dock are agreed.
• July - The Newport Dock Act receives the royal assent.
• September - John Frost is one of the first councillors elected in Newport under the terms of the Municipal Reform Act.
• 1 December - John Owen, mayor of Newport, cuts the first sod as construction begins on Newport Docks.
• The steam whistle, invented by Adrian Stephens two years earlier, is seen in operation at Dowlais ironworks and adopted by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway shortly afterwards.
• Adam Sedgwick names the Cambrian period in geology.^[1]

Arts and literature

• The Royal Institution of South Wales is established as the Swansea Philosophical and Literary Society.

New books

• Y Fwyalchen (poetry anthology)
• Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis - The Lyvys of the Seyntys

Music

• Anglesey Musical Society holds its first festival.
• John Roberts (Alaw Elwy) plays the harp for Queen Adelaide at Winchester.

Births

• 5 April (in Trowbridge) – Solomon Andrews, entrepreneur (d. 1908)
• 10 May – John Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe, industrialist (d. 1913)
• 14 July – John Roberts, politician (d. 1894)
• 7 August – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist (d. 1935)
• 29 August – Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (d. 1914)

Deaths

• 13 May – John Nash, architect, 83
• 16 May – Felicia Hemans, poet, 41
• 4 June – William Owen Pughe, grammarian and lexicographer, 75
• 1 December – Robert Davies (Robin Ddu o'r Glyn), poet, 66
• 29 December – Richard Llwyd, poet, 83

References

1. Murchison, R. I.; Sedgwick, A. (1835). "On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems". Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: 59–61.