1848 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1848 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1848 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

1 March – Llandovery College opens in the building known as the "Depot".[1]
1 May – Opening for Chester and Holyhead Railway traffic of the first tube of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.[2]
1 August – Opening of an isolated section of the Chester and Holyhead Railway across Anglesey from Llanfair to Holyhead.[2]
24 August – The American barque Ocean Monarch, loaded with would-be immigrants, catches fire off Colwyn Bay, with the loss of 178 lives.[3]
24 October – Trinity College, Carmarthen is established (as the South Wales and Monmouthshire Training College), to train teachers for the Church of England.[4]
14 November – Opening of the North Wales County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (North Wales Hospital), Denbigh.[5]
The new Llandeilo Bridge is completed, with a span of 145 feet (44 m) over the River Towy.[6]
Merthyr Tydfil Hebrew Congregation formed.
Butchers' Market in Wrexham opened.
Michael D. Jones becomes a minister in Cincinnati, Ohio.

23 January – Daniel James, bardic poet and lyricist of Calon Lân (died 1920)
12 February – Beriah Gwynfe Evans, journalist and dramatist (died 1927)
18 September – Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)
5 October – Sir John Purser Griffiths, civil engineer (died 1938)
2 November – A. G. Edwards, first Archbishop of Wales (died 1917)
30 December – David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)
Charles Ashton police officer, literary historian and bibliophile (suicide 1899)

17 January – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 63 (accidentally shot by his son)[7]
23 February – Lord Granville Somerset, MP for Monmouthshire, 55
18 March – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff, 54[8]
27 March – William Ellis Jones, poet, 52
2 April – Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquary, 64
7 November – Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian, 61[9]
15 November – David Hiram Williams, geologist and surveyor, 36[10]
23 December – James Cowles Prichard, physician and ethnologist of Welsh parentage, 62

David Trevor William Price (1977). A History of Saint David's University College Lampeter: to 1898. University of Wales Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-7083-0606-2.
Baughan, Peter E. (1972). The Chester & Holyhead Railway. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5617-8.
The London Journal: and Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art. G. Vickers. 1848. p. 1.
National Library of Wales (1993). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal. Council of the National Library of Wales. p. 326.
Kathryn Burtinshaw; John R F Burt (30 April 2017). Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland. Pen and Sword. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-4738-7906-5.
Roger Cragg (1997). Wales and West Central England. Thomas Telford. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-7277-2576-9.
Evan David Jones. "Herbert family (earls of Powis)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
Davies, John (1981). Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute. Cardiff, UK: University of Wales Press. ISBN 9780708324639.
Brinley Rees. "Price, Thomas (Carnhuanawc; 1787-1848), historian and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
Allen's Indian Mail Vol VII No 117 London Monday, 22 January 1849 p41

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