1834 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1834 to Wales and its people.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
[edit] Events
- December 27 - A ferry from Penally to Caldey sinks, and 15 people drown.
- The Treasury awards a grant of £84 for a school to be set up at Abergwili.
[edit] Arts and literature
- At an eisteddfod held in Cardiff, Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover, wins a prize for her essay on the Welsh language. Taliesin Williams wins the chair.
[edit] New books
- Sir Harford Jones Brydges - An Account of His Majesty's Mission to Persia in the years 1807-11
- Thomas Medwin - The Angler in Wales: Or, Days and Nights of Sportsmen
- John Humffreys Parry - The Cambrian Plutarch: Comprising Memoirs of Some of the Most Eminent Welshmen
[edit] Music
- Foulk Robert Williams - Llyfr Cerddoriaeth o Gerddi Sion... (unpublished MS)
[edit] Births
- February 15 - Sir William Henry Preece, engineer (d. 1913)
- March 31 - Thomas Rees Jones, engineer and inventor (d. 1897)
- July 2 - Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, politician (d. 1913)
- August 23 - Hugh Owen Thomas, orthopaedic surgeon (d. 1891)
- October 16 - Pryce Pryce-Jones, mail order entrepreneur (d. 1920)
- date unknown - William Thomas (Gwilym Marles), minister (d. 1879)
- December 21 - Griffith Rhys Jones, choirmaster and conductor (d. 1897)
[edit] Deaths
- July 9 - Dafydd Cadwaladr, preacher, 82
- August 11 - William Crawshay I, industrialist (b. 1764)
- September 2 - David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)
