1845 in Wales
Encyclopedia
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1845 to Wales
and its people
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
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Incumbents
- Prince of WalesPrince of WalesPrince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
— The Prince Albert EdwardEdward VII of the United KingdomEdward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...
, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom - Princess of WalesPrincess of WalesPrincess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
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Events
- 1 March — Robert StephensonRobert StephensonRobert Stephenson FRS was an English civil engineer. He was the only son of George Stephenson, the famed locomotive builder and railway engineer; many of the achievements popularly credited to his father were actually the joint efforts of father and son.-Early life :He was born on the 16th of...
begins construction of the Chester and Holyhead Railway. - 2 August — 26 men are killed in a mining accident at Cwmbach, AberdareAberdareAberdare is an industrial town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Dare and Cynon. The population at the census was 31,705...
. - Lewis EdwardsLewis EdwardsLewis Edwards was a Welsh educator and Nonconformist minister.He was born in the parish of Llanbadarn Fawr in Ceredigion, Wales, and educated at Aberystwyth and at Llangeitho. He then ran schools in both these places...
founds the periodical Y TraethodyddY TraethodyddY Traethodydd is a quarterly cultural magazine published in the Welsh language covering historical, literary and theological topics. The journal was originally published in 1845 on behalf of the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Church...
. - Thomas BrigstockeThomas BrigstockeThomas Brigstocke was a British portrait painter.-Life and work:Brigstocke first studied in Sass's studio, then at the Royal Academy Schools, and under Henry Perronet Briggs, and subsequently under John Prescott Knight...
exhibits his painting of General Nott before Queen Victoria. - The Welsh language periodical Y Trysorfa is founded.
- Thomas GeeThomas GeeThomas Gee , was a Welsh Nonconformist preacher, journalist and publisher.Gee was born at Denbigh. At the age of fourteen he went into his father's printing office, but continued to attend the grammar school in the afternoons.In 1837 he went to London to improve his knowledge of printing, and on...
inherits his father's printing business. - Henry Hussey Vivian becomes manager of the Hafod Smelting Works.
- Penry WilliamsPenry WilliamsPenry Williams was a Liberal Party politician in England.He was elected at the January 1910 as Member of Parliament for the usually-Liberal Middlesbrough constituency in the North Riding of Yorkshire...
paints the portrait of Lady Charlotte GuestLady Charlotte GuestLady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest, , later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English businesswoman and translator...
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New books
- Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion)Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion)Daniel Evans , better known by his pseudonym, Daniel Ddu o Geredigion, was a Welsh language poet.- Life :Evans was born at Maesymynach, a farm in the parish of Llanfihangel Ystrad, Cardiganshire. He was the second of three sons born to a farmer, David Evans...
— Galar-Cerdd ar Farwolaeth William Bruce Knight, Deon Llandaf - John Jones (Idrisyn) — Yr Esboniad Beirniadol
- John Mills (Ieuan Glan Alarch) — Y Beirniadur Cymreig
- Samuel Prideaux TregellesSamuel Prideaux TregellesSamuel Prideaux Tregelles was an English biblical scholar, textual critic, and theologian.- Life :Tregelles was born at Wodehouse Place, Falmouth, of Quaker parents, but he himself for many years was in communion with the Plymouth Brethren and then later in life became a Presbyterian...
— Hebrew Reading Lessons
Music
- Rosser Beynon — Telyn Seion
- Casgliad o Hymnau (hymns)
- John Ambrose Lloyd — Y Ganaan Glyd
Births
- 1 January — Francis JayneFrancis JayneRev Francis John Jayne , was a British bishop and academic.Born in Pant-y-beiliau, Llanelli, he was educated at Rugby School and Wadham College, Oxford. He took his B.A. in 1868 and M.A. in 1870...
, Principal of St David's College, Lampeter, and Bishop of Chester (died 1921) - 24 February — Alfred Lewis JonesAlfred Lewis JonesSir Alfred Lewis Jones , British ship-owner, was born in Carmarthenshire, Wales.At the age of twelve he was apprenticed to the managers of the African Steamship Company at Liverpool, making several voyages to the west coast of Africa. By the time he was twenty-six he had risen to be manager of the...
, shipping magnate (died 1909) - 21 June — Samuel GriffithSamuel GriffithSir Samuel Walker Griffith GCMG QC, was an Australian politician, Premier of Queensland, Chief Justice of the High Court of Australia and a principal author of the Constitution of Australia.-Early life:...
, Premier of Queensland (died 1920) - 10 October — Timothy RichardTimothy RichardTimothy Richard was a British Baptist missionary to China, who influenced the modernisation of China and the rise of the Chinese Republic....
, missionary (died 1919)
Deaths
- 1 January — Sir William NottWilliam NottSir William Nott GCB was a British military leader in British India.- Early life :Nott was born in 1782, near Neath in Wales, the second son of Charles Nott, a Herefordshire farmer, who in 1794 became an innkeeper of the Ivy Bush Inn at Carmarthen in Wales...
, military leader, 62 - 26 January - Peter Jones (Pedr Fardd), poet, 69