1841 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1841 to Wales and its people.

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February 20 - The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead with the loss of 123 lives.
March 9 - The first known photograph is taken in Wales, of Margam Castle by Calvert Jones.
August 19 - In the United Kingdom general election, William Edwards stands as a Chartist candidate in Monmouth Boroughs and becomes the only Parliamentary candidate in Wales, ever, not to win a single vote.
The Taff Vale Railway is extended to Merthyr Tydfil
Founding of Bala-Bangor Congregational College.
Poor Law Amendment Act is passed, largely thanks to the efforts of Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
Mordecai Jones opens a brewery at Brecon.
The Brymbo ironworks are bought out of Chancery after a long period of litigation and reopened by a limited company.

January 28 - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (died 1904)
February 14
- Sir John Gibson, journalist (died 1915)
- William Reginald Herbert, horseman (died 1929)
April 23 - Henry Hughes, minister and historian (died 1924)
May 21 - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
November 9 - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (died 1910)