1844 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- January 1 - 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.
- February 14 - 40 men are killed by flooding in a coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire.
- May 13 - 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston.
- December 3 - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
- A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire.
- Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.
Arts and literature
New books
- Hugh Derfel Hughes - Blodau'r Gân
- David Owen (Brutus) - Eliasia
Music
- Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend)
- Maria Jane Williams - Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg
Visual arts
- English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.
Sport
Births
- 1 January - Robert Clayton, cricketer (died 1901)
- 7 March - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905)
- 28 April - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
- June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887)
- 28 July - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)
- 3 August - Herbert Armitage James, clergyman and schoolmaster (died 1931)
- 1 December - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)
Deaths
- 18 January - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69
- 7 April - Morgan Lewis, Welsh-descended American politician, 89
- 23 November - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83
References
- ↑ Denbigh Cricket Club website. Accessed 21 March 2013
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