1834 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1834 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- June 23 - HMS Tartarus is launched at Pembroke Dock. It is the Royal Navy's first steam-powered man-of-war (a paddle gunvessel).[1]
- December 27 - A ferry from Penally to Caldey sinks and 15 people drown.
- William Williams of Wern starts the "General Union" movement.
- The government begins to make grants of 50% towards the erection of new elementary schools in England and Wales;[2] hence the Treasury awards £84 for a school to be set up at Abergwili.
- Border Breweries (Wrexham) begin operation at the Nag's Head public house.
- Walter Rice Howell Powell inherits the Maesgwynne estate.
Arts and literature
- At an eisteddfod held in Cardiff, Augusta Hall, Lady Llanover, wins a prize for her essay on the Welsh language. Taliesin Williams wins the chair.
New books
- Sir Harford Jones Brydges - An Account of His Majesty's Mission to Persia in the years 1807-11
- Thomas Medwin - The Angler in Wales: Or, Days and Nights of Sportsmen
- John Humffreys Parry - The Cambrian Plutarch: Comprising Memoirs of Some of the Most Eminent Welshmen
Music
- Foulk Robert Williams - Llyfr Cerddoriaeth o Gerddi Sion... (unpublished MS)
Births
- 15 February - Sir William Henry Preece, engineer (d. 1913)
- 31 March - Thomas Rees Jones, engineer and inventor (d. 1897)
- 14 April - Arthur John Williams, lawyer, author and politician (d. 1911)
- 2 July - Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, politician (d. 1913)
- 23 August - Hugh Owen Thomas, orthopaedic surgeon (d. 1891)
- 16 October - Pryce Pryce-Jones, mail order entrepreneur (d. 1920)
- 21 December - Griffith Rhys Jones, choirmaster and conductor (d. 1897)
- date unknown - William Thomas (Gwilym Marles), minister (d. 1879)
Deaths
- 13 May - John Jones, clergyman and writer, 58
- 20 June - John Wynne Griffith, politician, 71
- 9 July - Dafydd Cadwaladr, preacher, 82
- 11 August - William Crawshay I, industrialist (b. 1764)
- 2 September - David Charles, hymn-writer (b. 1762)
References
- ↑ Guard, John (2004-01-05). "History of Pembroke Dockyard". Retrieved 2012-01-10.
- ↑ Berry, George (1970). Discovering Schools. Tring: Shire Publications. ISBN 0-85263-091-3.
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