1835 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1835 to Wales and its people.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
[edit] Events
- January 8 - Sir Joseph Bailey is elected MP for Worcester.
- February 19 - In the United Kingdom general election, newly elected MPs in Wales include Wilson Jones at Denbigh.
- September - John Frost is one of the first councillors elected in Newport under the terms of the Municipal Reform Act.
- Opening of Swansea Museum.
- The steam whistle, invented by Adrian Stephens two years earlier, is seen in operation at Dowlais ironworks and adopted by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway shortly afterwards.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New books
- Y Fwyalchen (poetry anthology)
- Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis - The Lyvys of the Seyntys
[edit] Music
- Anglesey Musical Society holds its first festival.
- John Roberts (Alaw Elwy) plays the harp for Queen Adelaide at Winchester.
[edit] Births
- August 7 - Griffith Evans, bacteriologist (d. 1935)
- August 29 - Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (d. 1914)
[edit] Deaths
- May 13 - John Nash, architect, 83
- May 16 - Felicia Hemans, poet, 41
- June 4 - William Owen Pughe, grammarian and lexicographer, 75
- December 1 - Robert Davies (Robin Ddu o'r Glyn), poet, 66
- December 29 - Richard Llwyd, poet, 83
