1836 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1836 to Wales and its people.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
[edit] Events
- April - Completion of the Blaenau Ffestiniog Railway, the first narrow-gauge railway in the world.
- May 10 - 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire.
- June 21 - An Act of Parliament is passed, allowing the construction of the Taff Vale Railway.
- Crawshay Bailey buys the Aberaman estate from the family of Anthony Bacon.
- Humphrey Gwalchmai launches the periodical Yr Athraw.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New books
- Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) - Hanes Cymru a Chenedl y Cymry o'r Cynoesoedd hyd at Farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 1
- Rice Rees - An Essay on the Welsh Saints
- Thomas Roscoe - Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales
- Samuel Prideaux Tregelles - Passages in the Old Testament connected with the Revelation
[edit] Music
- John David Edwards - Original Sacred Music
[edit] Births
- March 15 - Griffith Jones (Glan Menai), teacher and author (d. 1906)
- April 1 - John Owen, balladeer (d. 1915)
- October 6 - Allen Raine, novelist (d. 1908)
- October 20 - Daniel Owen, novelist (d. 1895)
- November 9
- Isaac Foulkes, newspaper proprietor (d. 1904)
- Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen, politician (d. 1905)
[edit] Deaths
- August 11 - William Williams (Gwilym Twrog), poet, 67
- November 22 - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and writer, 73
- Sir Christopher Cole, politician
