1855 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1855 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 25 February — The steamship Morna is wrecked off North Bishop Rock, with the loss of 21 lives.
- 30 March — The Severn ferry from Chepstow sinks, and seven people drown.
- 8 September — At the Siege of Sevastopool in the Crimean War, Corporal Robert Shields of the 23rd Regiment of Foot recovers a fatally wounded officer from an exposed position, an action for which he will become the first Welsh recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- Construction of the first section of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway begins.
Arts and literature
New books
- John Jones (Talhaiarn) — Gwaith Talhaiarn, vol. 1
- William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) — Gweithiau Barddonol Gwilym Hiraethog
- William Williams (Creuddynfab) — Y Barddoniadur
Music
- Death of James Green of Bron y Garth, last of the traditional crwth players.
Births
- 11 February — Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player (died 1889)
- 16 August — William David Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1918)
- 11 December — David Thomas Ffrangcon Davies, singer (died 1918)
- date unknown — Jeremiah Jones, poet (died 1902)
Deaths
- 21 January - Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd), poet, 59
- 22 January — Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician, 74
- 9 February — William Chambers, industrialist, 81
- 28 June — FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, 66
- probable
- Richard Jones, printer and publisher, ?68
- William Edwards (Gwilym Callestr), poet[1]
References
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