1844 in Wales

1844 in Wales

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1844 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland

Other events of 1844

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria
• Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

• January 1 - 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.
• February 14 - 40 men are killed by flooding in a coal-mine at Landslipping, Pembrokeshire.
• May 13 - 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston.
• December 3 - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
• A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire.
• Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.

Arts and literature

New books

• Hugh Derfel Hughes - Blodau'r Gân
• David Owen (Brutus) - Eliasia

Music

• Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend)
• Maria Jane Williams - Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg

Sport

• Denbigh Cricket Club is founded.^[1]

Births

• 1 January - Robert Clayton, cricketer (died 1901)
• 7 March - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905)
• 28 April - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
• June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887)
• 28 July - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)
• 3 August - Herbert Armitage James, clergyman and schoolmaster (died 1931)
• 1 December - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)

Deaths

• 18 January - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69
• 7 April - Morgan Lewis, Welsh-descended American politician, 89
• 23 November - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83

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