1854 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1854 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 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.
Arts and literature
New books
- 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
Music
- Y Blwch Cerddorol (collection of hymns and anthems)
Births
- 8 April — Robert Arthur Williams (Berw), clergyman and poet (died 1926)
- 17 April — Sir John Eldon Bankes, judge (died 1946)
- 30 April — William Critchlow Harris, Welsh-Canadian architect (died 1913)
- 10 July — John Lloyd Williams, botanist and composer (died 1945)
- 22 September - John Fox Tallis, mining engineer (died 1925)
- 16 December — J. D. Rees, colonial administrator (died 1922)
Deaths
- 14 January — Charles Rodney Morgan, politician, 25
- 3 April — Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn, politician, 85
- 10 April — William Edward Powell, politician, 66
- 29 April — Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, soldier and politician,85
- 24 May — John Rowlands of Y Llys, alleged father of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 39
- 12 November — Charles Kemble, actor, 79
- 28 December — Rowland Williams, clergyman and writer, 75
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