1854 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1854 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

October 31 - David Davies (Dai'r Cantwr) receives a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.
November 5 - At the Battle of Inkerman, Hugh Rowlands carries out the actions that lead to his becoming the first Welshman to win the Victoria Cross.
November 11 - In Australia, Welsh-born John Basson Humffray is elected the first president of the Ballarat Reform League.
Beti Cadwaladr leaves home to nurse in the Crimean War.
Love Jones-Parry is High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire.
The Telegraphic Despatch is published in Swansea, the first newspaper in Wales to come out more than once a week.
John Williams (Ab Ithel) becomes editor of the Cambrian Journal.
A penny newspaper, the Herald Cymraeg, is founded at Caernarfon, with James Evans as editor.

John Edwards (Eos Glan Twrch) - Llais o'r Llwyn: sef Barddoniaeth, ar Amryfal Destynau
Samuel Evans (Gomerydd) - Y Gomerydd
Owen Wynne Jones - Fy Oriau Hamddenol
Thomas Prichard - The Heroines of Welsh History
William Thomas (Islwyn) - Barddoniaeth
Samuel Prideaux Tregelles - Account of the Printed Text of the New Testament