1850 in Wales

← 1849 1848 1847 1850 in Wales → 1851 1852 1853
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1850 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1850 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria
• Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

• 5 March — Opening of the Britannia Bridge.
• 16 June — Opening of the South Wales Railway between Chepstow and Swansea.
• November — Launch of the periodical Y Drych.
• 14 December — 13 men are killed in a mining accident at New Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.
• G. T. Clark marries Ann Price Lewis, a descendant of one of the original partners in the Dowlais Ironworks.
• The Llanelli Board of Health is founded, with William Chambers as its first chairman.
• The Merthyr Board of Health is founded, with John Josiah Guest as its first chairman.

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch) — Geirlyfr Saesoneg a Chymraeg, An English and Welsh Dictionary
• Elijah Waring — Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward Williams
• Morris Williams (Nicander) — Y Psalmwyr

Births

• 4 January — Griffith J. Griffith, industrialist (died 1919)
• 16 April — Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (died 1885)

Deaths

• 11 April
  • David Hughes, clergyman and writer, 64?
  • Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), poet, 77
• 18 April — John Richards, Welsh-born US politician, 85
• 19 April — Sir John Edwards of Garth, politician, 80
• 11 July — Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet and hymn-writer, 83
• 28 July — David Lewis, Carmarthenshire priest and writer, 90?
• 2 September — Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, politician, 74
• 19 December — George Williams, politician, 85