1835 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1835 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort (until 23 November); Penry Williams (from 24 December)
 * 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 – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
 * 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 – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort (until 23 November); Capel Hanbury Leigh (from 24 December
 * Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney


 * Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
 * Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey
 * Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson

Events

 * 8 January - Sir Joseph Bailey is elected MP for Worcester.
 * 19 February - In the United Kingdom general election, newly elected MPs in Wales include Wilson Jones at Denbigh Boroughs.
 * March - At a public meeting in the King's Head Inn, Newport, plans for a floating dock are agreed.
 * July - The Newport Dock Act receives the royal assent.
 * September - John Frost is one of the first councillors elected in Newport under the terms of the Municipal Reform Act.
 * 1 December - John Owen, mayor of Newport, cuts the first sod as construction begins on Newport Docks.
 * date unknown
 * The steam whistle, invented by Adrian Stephens two years earlier, is seen in operation at Dowlais ironworks and is adopted by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway shortly afterwards.
 * Adam Sedgwick names the Cambrian period in geology.

Arts and literature

 * The Royal Institution of South Wales is established as the Swansea Philosophical and Literary Society.

New books

 * Y Fwyalchen (poetry anthology)
 * Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis - The Lyvys of the Seyntys

Music

 * Anglesey Musical Society holds its first festival.
 * John Roberts (Alaw Elwy) plays the harp for Queen Adelaide at Winchester.

Births

 * 5 April (in Trowbridge) – Solomon Andrews, entrepreneur (d. 1908)
 * 10 May – John Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe, industrialist (d. 1913)
 * 14 July – John Roberts, politician (d. 1894)
 * 7 August – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist (d. 1935)
 * 29 August – Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (d. 1914)

Deaths

 * 3 March – Daniel Evans, Independent minister and author, 61
 * 1 May – Edward Jones, architect, 39
 * 13 May – John Nash, architect, 83
 * 16 May – Felicia Hemans, poet, 41
 * 4 June – William Owen Pughe, grammarian and lexicographer, 75
 * 23 November – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, 68
 * 1 December – Robert Davies (Robin Ddu o'r Glyn), poet, 66
 * 16 December – David Price, East India Company officer, 73
 * 29 December – Richard Llwyd, poet, 83