1843 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1843 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1843 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria
• Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

• 15 April — Death of William Howells, the notorious "Laleston poisoning" case. His sister and brother-in-law are later acquitted of his murder.
• June — After disturbances in Carmarthenshire, George Rice Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, takes on the responsibility for administering order in the county.
• 22 June — The Times sends a special correspondent to South Wales to cover the Rebecca Riots.
• 25 August — "The Great Meeting" (Y Cyfarfod Mawr) to seek political solutions to the problems underlying the Rebecca Riots is held on Mynydd Sylen in the Gwendraeth valley.
• 1 November — First Beaumaris Pier opened.
• 22 December — John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr), one of the ringleaders of the Rebecca Riots is sentenced to transportation to Australia.
• Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed to chair the commission of enquiry into the Rebecca Riots.
• Pontardawe Tinplate Works established.
• Llewelyn Lewellin becomes Dean of St David's.

Arts and literature

New books

• Daniel Silvan Evans — Blodeu Ieuainc
• Morris Williams (Nicander) — Y Flwyddyn Eglwysig

Music

• David Hughes (Cristiolus Môn) — Y Perorydd Cysegredig
• John Orlando Parry — The Accomplished Young Lady

Births

• 12 February — John Graham Chambers, sportsman who codified the Marquess of Queensberry rules (died 1883)
• 17 April — Richard John Lloyd Price, sportsman and squire of Rhiwlas (died 1923)
• 12 May — Thomas William Rhys Davids, founder of the Pali Text Society (died 1922)
• 11 June — James Milo Griffith, sculptor (died 1897)
• 20 December — Frances Hoggan, first British woman to qualify as a doctor (died 1927)

Deaths

• 31 January — William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament, 66?
• 26 March — Robert Richford Roberts, Welsh-descended Methodist leader in the United States, 64
• 27 March — Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny, 88
• 19 May — Charles James Apperley ("Nimrod"), sports writer, 64?
• date unknown — Mary Evans, first love of Samuel Taylor Coleridge