1846 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1846 to Wales and its people.

← 1845 1844 1843 1842 1841 1846 in Wales → 1847 1848 1849 1850 1851
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1846 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• 14 January - 35 men are killed in a mining accident at Risca.[1]
• March - A speech by William Williams, MP for Coventry, on the subject of education and the Welsh language leads to the commissioning of a report.
• 27 June - Thomas Frankland Lewis is created a baronet.[2]
• 1 August - Opening of the Aberdare railway.
• 3 August - Mary Cornelia Edwards of Plas Machynlleth marries George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry.[3]
• October - New bridge over the River Towy at Llandeilo collapses under construction.
• date unknown
  • New cast-iron Llandinam Bridge in Montgomeryshire is opened.[4]
  • The rebuilt Beaumaris Pier is partially opened.[5]
  • Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones becomes mission president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales, concentrating the church's efforts around Merthyr Tydfil, publishing (from July) the Welsh language monthly Prophwyd y Jubili and also the tract Hanes Saint y Dyddiau Diweddaf.
  • The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis.[6]

Arts and literature

New books

• Griffith Edwards (Gutyn Padarn) - Gwaith Prydyddawl
• Daniel Silvan Evans - Telynegion
• Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613...
• William Morgan (Gwilym Gelli-deg) - Cerbyd Awen

Music

• Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol (collection of hymns)

Births

• 8 January - Henry Bracy, tenor (d. 1917)
• 1 October - John Cadvan Davies, minister and poet (d. 1823)[7]
• 17 October - Mary Davies (Mair Eifion), poet (d. 1882)
• 24 November - Tom Hurry Riches, steam locomotive engineer (d. 1911)
• 6 December - James Charles, theologian (d. 1920)
• 28 December - William Frost, harpist (d. 1891)
• 3 August - Samuel M. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio (d. 1904)

Deaths

• 9 March - William Hughes, composer, 88
• 28 March - Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), poet, 53[8]
• 26 June - Honoratus Leigh Thomas, surgeon, 77[9]
• 29 July - John Owens, educational benefactor, 55[10]
• October - John Evans, surgeon and cartographer, 90[11]
• 3 December - Daniel Jones, missionary, 33
• 5 December - Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet, politician, 86[12]

References

1. "The late Fatal Explosion at Risca". Monmouthshire Merlin. Edward Dowling. 7 February 1846. hdl:10107/3425253.
2. David Williams. "Lewis, Sir Thomas Frankland (1780-1855), politician". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
3. David Barnes (2005). The Companion Guide to Wales. Companion Guides. p. 57. ISBN 978-1-900639-43-9.
4. David Morgan Rees (1975). The Industrial Archaeology of Wales. David & Charles. p. 270.
5. Martin Easdown; Darlah Thomas (15 July 2010). Piers of Wales. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 117. ISBN 978-1-4456-2385-6.
6. Abraham Hume (1847). The Learned Societies and Printing Clubs of the United Kingdom: Being an Account of Their Respective Origin, History, Objects, and Constitution: with Full Details Respecting Membership, Fees, Their Published Works and Transactions, Notices of Their Periods and Places of Meeting, &c. and a General Introduction and a Classified Index. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. p. 164.
7. Edward Tegla Davies. "Davies, John Cadvan (Cadvan; 1846 - 1923), Wesleyan minister". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 May 2020.
8. Jones, David Gwenallt. "Evans, Daniel (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion; 1792–1846)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 September 2008.
9. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1898). "Thomas, Honoratus Leigh" . Dictionary of National Biography. 56. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
10. Clapp, Brian W. (2004). "Owens, John (1790–1846), merchant and philanthropist". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 11 October 2017. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
11. North, Frederick John. "Evans, John (1756–1846), surgeon". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2008.
12. The Gentleman's Magazine (London, England). F. Jefferies. 1847. p. 306.