1840s in Wales

1830s | 1850s | Other years in Wales

Other events of the decade

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1840–1849 to Wales and its people.

## Events

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* 1840
* 1841
* 1842
* 1843
* 1844
* 1845
* 1846
* 1847
* 1848
* 1849

## Arts and literature

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### New books

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* Anne Beale — Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry (1849)
* Robert Elis (Cynddelw) — Yr Adgyfodiad (1849)
* John Hughes — The Self-Searcher (1848)
* John Jenkins — National Education (1848)
* Samuel Lewis — Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1849)
* John Lloyd
* Poems (1847)
* The English Country Gentleman (1849)
* Richard Williams Morgan — Maynooth and St. Asaph (1848)
* Edward Parry — Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead (1848)
* Thomas Stephens — The Literature of the Kymry (1849)
* Morris Williams (Nicander)
* Y Flwyddyn Eglwysig (1843)
* Llyfr yr Homiliau (1847)

### Music

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* Rosser Beynon — Telyn Seion (1845)
* John Ambrose Lloyd — Y Ganaan Glyd (1845)
* Rowland Prichard — Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend) (1844)
* Robert Herbert Williams — Alawydd Trefriw (1848)

## Births

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* 1840
* September 16 — Alfred Thomas, 1st Baron Pontypridd (died 1927)
* November 29 — Rhoda Broughton, novelist (died 1920)
* December 3 — Francis Kilvert, diarist (died 1879)
* December 5 — John E. Jones, governor of Nevada (died 1896)
* December 17 — Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician (died 1935)
* date unknown — John Rhŷs, educationist (died 1915)
* 1841
* January 28 — Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (died 1904)
* May 21 — Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
* November 9 — Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII; died 1910)
* 1842
* June 14 — William Abraham (Mabon), politician (died 1922)
* September 28 — William John Parry, quarrymen's leader (died 1927)
* 1843
* May 12 — Thomas William Rhys Davids, founder of the Pali Text Society (died 1922)
* December 20 — Frances Hoggan, first British woman to qualify as a doctor (died 1927)
* 1844
* April 28 — Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
* July 28 — Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)
* December 1 — Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901–1910
* 1845
* February 24 — Alfred Lewis Jones, shipping magnate (died 1909)
* June 21 — Samuel Griffith, Premier of Queensland (died 1920)
* October 10 — Timothy Richard, missionary
* 1847
* date unknown
* Daniel James, hymn-writer (died 1920)
* Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer (died 1933)
* 1848
* September 18 — Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)
* December 30 — David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)
* 1849

## Deaths

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* 1841
* June 8 — John Elias, preacher (born 1774)
* date unknown — John Blackwell (Alun), poet (born 1797)
* 1842
* August 20 — Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian, relation of the Vivian family of Swansea (born 1775)
* 1843
* March 26 — Robert Richford Roberts, Welsh-descended Methodist leader in the USA
* March 27 — Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny (born 1755)
* 1845
* January 1 — Sir William Nott, military leader (born 1782)
* 1848
* March 18 — John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff (born 1793)
* date unknown — Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian (born 1787)
* 1849
* March 21 — William Sherley Williams, Welsh-descended pioneer
* September 16 — Thomas Jones, missionary