1839 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1839 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- March - John Frost loses his position as a magistrate because of his Chartist sympathies.
- May 8 - Henry Vincent is arrested after addressing a Chartist meeting and taken to prison at Monmouth.
- May 13 - Beginning of the Rebecca Riots.
- July 25 - William Ewart Gladstone marries Catherine Glynne of Hawarden.
- August 27 - Mary Anne Lewis, widow of Cardiff MP Wyndham Lewis, marries Benjamin Disraeli.
- October 5 - Opening of West Bute Dock.
- November 4 - Newport Rising: several thousand coal miners march on the Westgate Hotel in Newport to liberate Chartist prisoners.[1] 28 people are shot dead by police.
- November 23 - Zephaniah Williams, one of the leaders of the Chartist march on Newport, is arrested on board ship at Cardiff.
- Chartist riot in Llanidloes.
- Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis resigns as chairman of the Poor Law Commission, to be replaced by his son, George Cornewall Lewis.
Arts and literature
New books
- William Bingley - Excursions in North Wales
- Maria James - Wales and other Poems
- William Williams (Caledfryn) - Drych Barddonol
Music
- John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) - Hafilah (hymn tune)
Births
- January 9 - Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer (d. 1916)
- March 7 - Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist (d. 1909)
- March 31 - Thomas Henry Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn) later known as T. H. Thomas, artist (d. 1915)
- September 24 - John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor (d. 1931)
Deaths
- May 11 - "Doctor" John Harries, Cwrt-y-cadno, physician, 54
- May 16 - Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, 84
- May 20 - Rice Rees, historian, 35
- December 29 - Hopkin Bevan, minister and author, 74
References
- ↑ "John Lovell and the People's Charter, National Archives". Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-09-12.
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