1836 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1836 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- April - Completion of the Ffestiniog Railway, the first narrow-gauge railway in the world.
- 10 May – 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire.
- 21 June - An Act of Parliament is passed, allowing the construction of the Taff Vale Railway.
- Crawshay Bailey buys the Aberaman estate from the family of Anthony Bacon.
- Humphrey Gwalchmai launches the periodical Yr Athraw.
- The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites is established in Wrexham by Thomas Robert Jones, it is Wales' first friendly society.
- The final known duel takes place in Wales, between MP Sir John Owen and former Tenby mayor William Richards. Richards is badly wounded.
Arts and literature
New books
- Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) - Hanes Cymru a Chenedl y Cymry o'r Cynoesoedd hyd at Farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 1
- Rice Rees - An Essay on the Welsh Saints
- Thomas Roscoe - Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales
- Samuel Prideaux Tregelles - Passages in the Old Testament connected with the Revelation
- John Williams (Ab Ithel) - Eglwys Loegr yn Anymddibynol ar Eglwys Rhufain
Music
- John David Edwards - Original Sacred Music
Births
- 30 January – Lewis Jones, one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1904)
- 15 March - Griffith Jones (Glan Menai), teacher and author (d. 1906)
- 1 April - John Owen, balladeer (d. 1915)
- 26 May - Sir John Dillwyn-Llewellyn, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1927)
- 5 July - Evan Herber Evans, Nonconformist leader (d. 1896)
- 6 October - Allen Raine, novelist (d. 1908)
- 20 October - Daniel Owen, novelist (d. 1895)
- 9 November – Isaac Foulkes, newspaper proprietor (d. 1904)
- 9 November – Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen, politician (d. 1905)
Deaths
- 11 August - William Williams (Gwilym Twrog), poet, 67
- 24 August Sir Christopher Cole, Royal Navy officer and politician
- 22 November - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and writer, 73
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