1844 in Wales

1844 in Wales
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Other events of 1844

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

Incumbents

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.

English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.