1841 in Wales

1841 in Wales
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1841 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1841

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1841 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

20 February - The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead with the loss of 123 lives.
9 March - The first known photograph is taken in Wales, of Margam Castle by Calvert Jones.
12 April - The Taff Vale Railway is extended to Merthyr Tydfil
26 July - The proprietors of The Skerries Lighthouse off Anglesey, the last privately owned light in the British Isles, are awarded £444,984 in compensation for its sale to Trinity House.
19 August - In the United Kingdom general election, William Edwards stands as a Chartist candidate in Monmouth Boroughs and becomes the only Parliamentary candidate in Wales, ever, not to win a single vote.
Founding of Bala-Bangor Congregational College.
Poor Law Amendment Act is passed, largely thanks to the efforts of Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
Mordecai Jones opens a brewery at Brecon.
The Brymbo ironworks are bought out of Chancery after a long period of litigation and reopened by a limited company.
Opening of Swansea Museum by the Royal Institution of South Wales.

28 January - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (died 1904)
14 February
- Sir John Gibson, journalist (died 1915)
- William Reginald Herbert, horseman (died 1929)
5 April - Robert Rees, singer and musician (died 1892)
23 April - Henry Hughes, minister and historian (died 1924)
21 May - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
26 June (in London) - James Cholmeley Russell, railway entrepreneur (died 1912)
9 November (in London) - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII (died 1910)