1844 in Wales
overview of Wales-related events during the year of 1844
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey
Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall
Events
1 January - 11 or 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.
14 February - 40 men are killed when the Cleddau floods the Garden Pit coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire.
8 March - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) embarks on the Blundell for transportation to Norfolk Island, his sentence for shooting at a man during the Rebecca Riots.
13 May - 7 or 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston, Pembrokeshire.
3 December - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
31 December - David Williams takes out a lease on a mine at Cwmbach, in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed.
date unknown
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.
Arts and literature
New books
Hugh Derfel Hughes - Blodau'r Gân
David Owen (Brutus) - Eliasia
Music
Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend)
Maria Jane Williams - Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg
Visual arts
English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.
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