Events

• 23 May — The Festiniog Railway Company is set up by Act of Parliament, making it, as of the 21st century, the world's oldest surviving statutory public railway company.
• In the UK general election, John Josiah Guest
  John Josiah Guest
  Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet, known as John Josiah Guest, was a Welsh engineer and entrepreneur.-Life:Born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, as the son of Thomas Guest, a partner in the Dowlais Iron Company...
  
   becomes the first MP for the new constituency of Merthyr Boroughs
  Merthyr Tydfil (UK Parliament constituency)
  Merthyr Tydfil was a parliamentary constituency centred on the town of Merthyr Tydfil in Glamorgan. From 1832 to 1868 it returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, and in 1868 this was increased to two members...
  
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• At the Beaumaris eisteddfod, the title of Archdruid
  Archdruid
  The Archdruid is the title used by the presiding official of the Gorsedd.The Archdruid presides over the most important ceremonies at the National Eisteddfod of Wales including the Crowning of the Bard, The Award of the Prose Medal and Chairing of the Bard. From 1932 only former winners of the...
  
   is used for the first time.
• The first temperance
  Temperance movement
  A temperance movement is a social movement urging reduced use of alcoholic beverages. Temperance movements may criticize excessive alcohol use, promote complete abstinence , or pressure the government to enact anti-alcohol legislation or complete prohibition of alcohol.-Temperance movement by...
  
   society in Wales is founded at Holyhead
  Holyhead
  Holyhead is the largest town in the county of Anglesey in the North Wales. It is also a major port adjacent to the Irish Sea serving Ireland....
  
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• Serious outbreak of cholera
  Cholera
  Cholera is an infection of the small intestine that is caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. The main symptoms are profuse watery diarrhea and vomiting. Transmission occurs primarily by drinking or eating water or food that has been contaminated by the diarrhea of an infected person or the feces...
  
   in Wales.
• Wrexham
  Wrexham
  Wrexham is a town in Wales. It is the administrative centre of the wider Wrexham County Borough, and the largest town in North Wales, located in the east of the region. It is situated between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley close to the border with Cheshire, England...
  
   Infirmary is founded at the instigation of Thomas Taylor Griffith.
• Princess Victoria and her mother, the Duchess of Kent
  Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
  Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld was the mother of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom.-Early life:...
  
  , visit Wynnstay
  Wynnstay
  Wynnstay was a famous estate in Wales, the family seat of the Wynns. It is located at Ruabon, near Wrexham.During the 17th century, Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet inherited the Watstay Estate through his marriage to Jane Evans , and renamed it the Wynnstay Estate...
  
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• Walter Coffin
  Walter Coffin
  Walter Coffin was a Welsh coalowner and Member of Parliament. Coffin is recognised as the first person to exploit the rich coal fields of the Rhondda Valley on an industrial scale, pioneering the growth of one of the most wealthy coal mining areas in the world.-Early life:Born in 1784 he was the...
  
   opens the "Rhondda No. 3" coal seam.

New books

• Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) — Amddiffyniad o Brynedigaeth Neillduol
• Jedediah Richards — Addysg ac Amddiffyniad

Births

• 5 January — Love Jones-Parry, politician and Patagonian settler (d. 1891)
• 3 April — William Thomas (Islwyn)
  William Thomas (Islwyn)
  William Thomas, bardic name Islwyn , was a Welsh language poet, born near Ynysddu, then in the old county of Monmouthshire, south-east Wales.- Early life :...
  
  , poet (d. 1878)
• 25 September — John Ceiriog Hughes
  John Ceiriog Hughes
  John Ceiriog Hughes , was a Welsh poet and well-known collector of Welsh folk tunes. Sometimes referred to as the "Robert Burns of Wales"...
  
  , poet (d. 1887)
• 19 November — Benjamin Thomas Williams
  Benjamin Thomas Williams
  Benjamin Thomas Williams was a Welsh barrister and Liberal Party politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1878 to 1882....
  
  , lawyer and politician (d. 1890)
• 17 December - Thomas McKenny Hughes
  Thomas McKenny Hughes
  Thomas McKenny Hughes was a Welsh geologist. He was Woodwardian Professor of Geology at Cambridge University.-Private life:...
  
  , geologist (d. 1917)
• date unknown — William Williams
  William Williams (veterinarian)
  William Williams FRSE PRCVS was a Welsh veterinary surgeon who served as principal of the Dick Veterinary College in Edinburgh and as president of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons . He was the founder and principal of the New Veterinary College, in Gayfield Square , Edinburgh...
  
  , veterinary surgeon (d. 1900)

Deaths

• 23 February — Owen Williams (MP)
  Owen Williams (MP)
  Owen Williams was a Member of Parliament for Great Marlow from 25 May 1796 to his death 23 February 1832.He was the son of another MP, Thomas Williams of Llanidan with whom he served from 1796 to 1802...
  
  , 67
• 13 May — John Nash
  John Nash (architect)
  John Nash was a British architect responsible for much of the layout of Regency London.-Biography:Born in Lambeth, London, the son of a Welsh millwright, Nash trained with the architect Sir Robert Taylor. He established his own practice in 1777, but his career was initially unsuccessful and...
  
  , architect, 83
• 14 August — Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), poet, 63