1839 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1839 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 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.

Arts and literature

New books

• William Bingley - Excursions in North Wales
• Maria James - Wales and other Poems
• William Williams (Caledfryn) - Drych Barddonol

Music

• John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) - Hafilah (hymn tune)

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• May 11 - "Doctor" John Harries, Cwrt-y-cadno, physician, 54
• May 16 - Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, 84
• May 20 - Rice Rees, historian, 35
• December 29 - Hopkin Bevan, minister and author, 74

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