1846 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1846 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire â Penry Williams[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â William Edward Powell[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Robert Myddelton Biddulph[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire â Capel Hanbury Leigh[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[14]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[15][2]
- Bishop of Bangor â Christopher Bethell[16][17]
- Bishop of Llandaff â Edward Copleston[18]
- Bishop of St Asaph â William Carey (until 13 September);[19] Thomas Vowler Short (from 27 October)[20][21][18]
- Bishop of St Davids â Connop Thirlwall (from 9 August)[22][18][23]
Events
- 14 January - 35 men are killed in a mining accident at Risca.[24]
- March - A speech by William Williams, MP for Coventry, on the subject of education and the Welsh language leads to the commissioning of a report.
- 27 June - Thomas Frankland Lewis is created a baronet.[25]
- 1 August - Opening of the Aberdare railway.
- 3 August - Mary Cornelia Edwards of Plas Machynlleth marries George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry.[26]
- October - New bridge over the River Towy at Llandeilo collapses under construction.
- date unknown
- The new cast-iron Llandinam Bridge in Montgomeryshire is opened.[27]
- The rebuilt Beaumaris Pier is partially opened.[28]
- Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones becomes mission president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales, concentrating the church's efforts around Merthyr Tydfil, publishing (from July) the Welsh language monthly Prophwyd y Jubili and also the tract Hanes Saint y Dyddiau Diweddaf.
- The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis.[29]
Arts and literature
New books
- Griffith Edwards (Gutyn Padarn) - Gwaith Prydyddawl
- Daniel Silvan Evans - Telynegion
- Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613...
- William Morgan (Gwilym Gelli-deg) - Cerbyd Awen
Music
- Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol (collection of hymns)
Births
- 8 January - Henry Bracy, tenor (d. 1917)
- 1 October - John Cadvan Davies, minister and poet (d. 1823)[30]
- 17 October - Mary Davies (Mair Eifion), poet (d. 1882)
- 24 November - Tom Hurry Riches, steam locomotive engineer (d. 1911)[31]
- 6 December - James Charles, theologian (d. 1920)
- 28 December - William Frost, harpist (d. 1891)
- 3 August - Samuel M. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio (d. 1904)
Deaths
- 9 March - William Hughes, composer, 88
- 28 March - Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), poet, 53[32]
- 26 June - Honoratus Leigh Thomas, surgeon, 77[33]
- 29 July - John Owens, educational benefactor, 55[34]
- 13 September â William Carey, Bishop of St Asaph, 76[19]
- October - John Evans, surgeon and cartographer, 90[35]
- 3 December - Daniel Jones, missionary, 33[36]
- 5 December - Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet, politician, 86[37]
