1839 in Wales
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Template:Short description Template:Use Welsh English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1839 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[14][2][15]
- Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell[16][17]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston[18]
- Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey[19][20][18]
- Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson[18][21][22][23]
Events
- March – John Frost, former mayor of Newport, is deprived of his position as a magistrate because of his Chartist sympathies.
- 30 April – Chartists riot in Llanidloes and seize control of the town for five days.
- 7 May – Henry Vincent is arrested after addressing a Chartist meeting and taken to prison at Monmouth.[24]
- 13 May – Beginning of the Rebecca Riots.
- 25 July – William Ewart Gladstone marries Catherine Glynne of Hawarden.[25]
- 28 August – Mary Anne Lewis, widow of Cardiff MP Wyndham Lewis, marries Benjamin Disraeli.[26]
- 5 October – Opening of West Bute Dock.
- 4 November – Newport Rising: between 5,000 and 10,000 Chartist sympathisers led by John Frost, many of them coal miners, march on the Westgate Hotel in Newport, Monmouthshire, to liberate Chartist prisoners; around 22 are killed when troops, directed by Thomas Phillips, the mayor, fire on the crowd.[27] This is the last large-scale armed civil rebellion against authority in mainland Britain and sees the most deaths.
- 23 November – Zephaniah Williams, one of the leaders of the Chartist march on Newport, is arrested on board ship at Cardiff.[28]
- date unknown – 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
- 9 January – Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer (d. 1916)[29]
- 13 February (in England) – Robert Bird, politician (d. 1909)
- 7 March (in Germany) – Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist (d. 1909)[30]
- 31 March – Thomas Henry Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn) later known as T. H. Thomas, artist (d. 1915)[31]
- 24 September (in England) – John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor (d. 1931)[32]
Deaths
- 27 January – Sir Charles Paget, MP for Caernarfon, 60 (yellow fever)[33]
- 11 May – "Doctor" John Harries, Cwrt-y-cadno, physician, 54[34]
- 16 May – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, 84[35]
- 20 May – Rice Rees, historian, 35[36]
- 29 December – Hopkin Bevan, minister and author, 74[37]
See also
References
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