1844 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.

← 1843 1842 1841 1840 1839 1844 in Wales → 1845 1846 1847 1848 1849
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1844 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

• 1 January - 11 or 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.[1]
• 14 February - 40 men are killed by flooding in a coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire.
• 8 March - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) embarks on the "Blundell" for transportation to Norfolk Island, his sentence for shooting at a man during the Rebecca Riots.[2]
• 13 May - 7 or 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston.[3]
• 3 December - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
• 31 December - David Williams takes out a lease on a mine at Cwmbach, in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed.[4]
• date unknown
  • 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.[5]
  • Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.[6]

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

• Denbigh Cricket Club is founded.[7]

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
• 8 November - Iltid Nicholl, lawyer, 67/68
• 23 November - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83

References

1. The Cambrian: A Magazine for the Welsh in America. D.I. Jones. 1893. p. 330.
2. David Williams. "Jones, John (fl. 1811-1858; 'Shoni Sguborfawr'), Rebecca rioter". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
3. The Illustrated London News. Leighton. 1844. p. 16.
4. Watkin William Price. "Williams, David (Alaw Goch; 1809-1863), coal-owner and eisteddfodwr". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
5. The Supplement to the Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge: Habenaria- Ginziber. 2. C. Knight. 1846. p. 680.
6. Emyr Hywel Owen. "Roberts, Owen Owen (1793-1866), physician and social reformer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
7. Denbigh Cricket Club website. Accessed 21 March 2013