1835 in Wales

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1835 in Wales
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1835 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1835

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1835 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

8 January - Sir Joseph Bailey is elected MP for Worcester.
19 February - In the United Kingdom general election, newly elected MPs in Wales include Wilson Jones at Denbigh Boroughs.
March - At a public meeting in the King's Head Inn, Newport, plans for a floating dock are agreed.
July - The Newport Dock Act receives the royal assent.
September - John Frost is one of the first councillors elected in Newport under the terms of the Municipal Reform Act.
1 December - John Owen, mayor of Newport, cuts the first sod as construction begins on Newport Docks.
The steam whistle, invented by Adrian Stephens two years earlier, is seen in operation at Dowlais ironworks and adopted by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway shortly afterwards.
Adam Sedgwick names the Cambrian period in geology.^[1]

The Royal Institution of South Wales is established as the Swansea Philosophical and Literary Society.

↑ Murchison, R. I.; Sedgwick, A. (1835). "On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems". Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science: 59–61.

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