1839 in Wales

1839 in Wales
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1839 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1839

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1839 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

March - John Frost loses his position as a magistrate because of his Chartist sympathies.
May 8 - Henry Vincent is arrested after addressing a Chartist meeting and taken to prison at Monmouth.
May 13 - Beginning of the Rebecca Riots.
July 25 - William Ewart Gladstone marries Catherine Glynne of Hawarden.
August 27 - Mary Anne Lewis, widow of Cardiff MP Wyndham Lewis, marries Benjamin Disraeli.
October 5 - Opening of West Bute Dock.
November 4 - Newport Rising: several thousand coal miners march on the Westgate Hotel in Newport to liberate Chartist prisoners.^[1] 28 people are shot dead by police.
November 23 - Zephaniah Williams, one of the leaders of the Chartist march on Newport, is arrested on board ship at Cardiff.
Chartist riot in Llanidloes.
Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis resigns as chairman of the Poor Law Commission, to be replaced by his son, George Cornewall Lewis.

January 9 - Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer (d. 1916)
March 7 - Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist (d. 1909)
March 31 - Thomas Henry Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn) later known as T. H. Thomas, artist (d. 1915)
September 24 - John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor (d. 1931)