1844 in Wales

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1844 in the United Kingdom

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 New books 3.2 Music 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
• Princess of Wales - vacant

[edit] Events

• January 1 - 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery Rhondda.
• February 14 - 40 men are killed by flooding in a coal-mine at Landslipping, Pembrokeshire.
• May 13 - 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston.
• December 3 - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
• A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire.
• Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] New books

• Hugh Derfel Hughes - Blodau'r Gân
• David Owen (Brutus) - Eliasia

[edit] Music

• Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Can­to­ri­on (The Singer's Friend)
• Maria Jane Williams - Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg

[edit] Births

• March 7 - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905)
• April 28 - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
• June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887)
• July 28 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)
• December 1 - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)

[edit] Deaths

• January 18 - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69
• November 23 - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83