1847 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1847 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

January 14 - All 13 members of the Point of Ayr lifeboat crew are drowned when it capsizes off Rhyl.
April 1 - Publication of the controversial government report on education in Wales (the "Blue Books")
April 8 - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is transported to Tasmania for his involvement in the Rebecca riots.
In the UK general election:
- Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis becomes MP for Radnor Boroughs.
- Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet, loses his Flintshire seat to Edward Lloyd-Mostyn for the second time.
May 24 - Five people are killed in the Dee bridge disaster, when Robert Stephenson's railway bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway at Chester collapses.
The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel)
Albert, Prince Consort, is unsuccessfully challenged for the chancellorship of the University of Cambridge by Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis. The winning margin is less than 120 votes.
Sir William Robert Grove is awarded the medal of the Royal Society.

January 13 - Daniel James (Gwyrosydd), hymn-writer (died 1920)
January 27 - Owen Owens Roberts, choirmaster and conductor (died 1926)
April 22 - Charles Henry Wynn (died 1911)
June 20 - Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig), clergyman and author (died 1927)
July 10 - Alfred Neobard Palmer, historian and ancient monuments inspector (died 1915)
November 14 - Roland Rogers, musician (died 1927)
date unknown - Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer (died 1933)