1839 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1839 to Wales and its people.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
[edit] Events
- March - John Frost loses his position as a magistrate because of his Chartist sympathies.
- May 8 - Henry Vincent is arrested after addressing a Chartist meeting and taken to prison at Monmouth.
- May 13 - Beginning of the Rebecca Riots.
- July 25 - William Gladstone marries Catherine Glynne of Hawarden.
- August 27 - Mary Anne Lewis, widow of Cardiff MP Wyndham Lewis, marries Benjamin Disraeli.
- October 5 - Opening of West Bute Dock.
- November 4 - Newport Rising: several thousand coal miners march on the Westgate Hotel in Newport to liberate Chartist prisoners.[1] 28 people are shot dead by police.
- November 23 - Zephaniah Williams, one of the leaders of the Chartist march on Newport, is arrested on board ship at Cardiff.
- Chartist riot in Llanidloes.
- Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis resigns as as chairman of the Poor Law Commission, to be replaced by his son, George Cornewall Lewis.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New books
- William Bingley - Excursions in North Wales
- Maria James - Wales and other Poems
- William Williams (Caledfryn) - Drych Barddonol
[edit] Music
- John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) - Hafilah (hymn tune)
[edit] Births
- January 9 - Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer (d. 1916)
- March 7 - Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist (d. 1909)
- March 31 - Thomas Henry Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn) , artist (d. 1915)
- September 24 - John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor (d. 1931)
[edit] Deaths
- May 16 - Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, 84
- December 29 - Hopkin Bevan, minister and author, 74
[edit] References
- ^ John Lovell and the People's Charter, National Archives. Retrieved on 2007-09-12.
