1854 in Wales

1854 in Wales
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1854 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1854

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

Incumbents

31 October — David Davies (Dai'r Cantwr) receives a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.
5 November — At the Battle of Inkerman, Hugh Rowlands carries out the actions that lead to his becoming the first Welshman to win the Victoria Cross.
11 November — 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