1846 in Wales

1846 in Wales
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Other events of 1846

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1846 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

January 14 - 35 men are killed in a mining accident at Risca.
March - A speech by William Williams, MP for Coventry, on the subject of education and the Welsh language leads to the commissioning of a report.
June 27 - Thomas Frankland Lewis is created a baronet.
August 1 - Opening of the Aberdare railway.
August 3 - Mary Cornelia Edwards of Plas Machynlleth marries George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry.
Mormon missionaries arrive in Merthyr Tydfil.
The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis.

Griffith Edwards (Gutyn Padarn) - Gwaith Prydyddawl
Daniel Silvan Evans - Telynegion
Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613...
William Morgan (Gwilym Gelli-deg) - Cerbyd Awen