1839 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1839 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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, former mayor of Newport, is deprived of his position as a magistrate because of his Chartist sympathies.
30 April – Chartists riot in Llanidloes and seize control of the town for five days.
7 May – Henry Vincent is arrested after addressing a Chartist meeting and taken to prison at Monmouth.[1]
13 May – Beginning of the Rebecca Riots.
25 July – William Ewart Gladstone marries Catherine Glynne of Hawarden.
28 August – Mary Anne Lewis, widow of Cardiff MP Wyndham Lewis, marries Benjamin Disraeli.[2]
5 October – Opening of West Bute Dock.
4 November – Newport Rising: between 5,000 and 10,000 Chartist sympathisers led by John Frost, many of them coal miners, march on the Westgate Hotel in Newport, Monmouthshire, to liberate Chartist prisoners; around 22 are killed when troops, directed by Thomas Phillips, the mayor, fire on the crowd.[3] This is the last large-scale armed civil rebellion against authority in mainland Britain and sees the most deaths.
23 November – Zephaniah Williams, one of the leaders of the Chartist march on Newport, is arrested on board ship at Cardiff.[4]
date unknown – 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

9 January – Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer (d. 1916)[5]
13 February (in England) – Robert Bird, politician (d. 1909)
7 March (in Germany) – Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist (d. 1909)[6]
31 March – Thomas Henry Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn) later known as T. H. Thomas, artist (d. 1915)[7]
24 September (in England) – John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor (d. 1931)[8]

Deaths

27 January – Sir Charles Paget, MP for Caernarfon, 60 (yellow fever)[9]
11 May – "Doctor" John Harries, Cwrt-y-cadno, physician, 54
16 May – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, 84[10]
20 May – Rice Rees, historian, 35
29 December – Hopkin Bevan, minister and author, 74[11]

References

A Gwent Anthology. Christopher Davies. 1988. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-7154-0655-7.
Paul Smith (12 September 1996). Disraeli: A Brief Life. Cambridge University Press. pp. 37. ISBN 978-0-521-38150-5.
"John Lovell and the People's Charter". The struggle for democracy. Kew: The National Archives. 2003. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
David Egan (1 January 1987). People, Protest, and Politics: Case Studies in Nineteenth Century Wales. Gomer Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-86383-350-2.
William Llewelyn Davies. "Rees, Sarah Jane (Cranogwen; 1839-1916), schoolmistress, poet, editor, temperance advocate". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
Chemical Society (Great Britain) (1918). Journal of the Chemical Society. The Society. p. 318.
William Llewelyn Davies. "Thomas, Thomas Henry (Arlunydd Penygarn; 1839-1915), artist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
Trinity College (University of Cambridge) (1913). Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge ... Macmillan and Company, Limited. p. 700.
Edward Clarence Paget (1913). Memoir of the Honble Sir Charles Paget, G.C.H., 1778-1839. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 105.
R. G. Thorne, CLIVE, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, 1986.
Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index. Herald Office. p. 195.

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[1] A Gwent Anthology. Christopher Davies. 1988. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-7154-0655-7.

[2] Paul Smith (12 September 1996). Disraeli: A Brief Life. Cambridge University Press. pp. 37. ISBN 978-0-521-38150-5.

[3] "John Lovell and the People's Charter". The struggle for democracy. Kew: The National Archives. 2003. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2019.

[4] David Egan (1 January 1987). People, Protest, and Politics: Case Studies in Nineteenth Century Wales. Gomer Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-86383-350-2.

[5] William Llewelyn Davies. "Rees, Sarah Jane (Cranogwen; 1839-1916), schoolmistress, poet, editor, temperance advocate". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2020.

[6] Chemical Society (Great Britain) (1918). Journal of the Chemical Society. The Society. p. 318.

[7] William Llewelyn Davies. "Thomas, Thomas Henry (Arlunydd Penygarn; 1839-1915), artist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2020.

[8] Trinity College (University of Cambridge) (1913). Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge ... Macmillan and Company, Limited. p. 700.

[9] Edward Clarence Paget (1913). Memoir of the Honble Sir Charles Paget, G.C.H., 1778-1839. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 105.

[10] R. G. Thorne, CLIVE, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, 1986.

[11] Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index. Herald Office. p. 195.