1840s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1840–1849 to Wales and its people.

Events

 * 1840
 * 1841
 * 1842
 * 1843
 * 1844
 * 1845
 * 1846
 * 1847
 * 1848
 * 1849

New books

 * Anne Beale — Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry (1849)
 * Robert Elis (Cynddelw) — Yr Adgyfodiad (1849)
 * John Hughes — The Self-Searcher (1848)
 * John Jenkins — National Education (1848)
 * Samuel Lewis — Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1849)
 * John Lloyd
 * Poems (1847)
 * The English Country Gentleman (1849)
 * Richard Williams Morgan — Maynooth and St. Asaph (1848)
 * Edward Parry — Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead (1848)
 * Thomas Stephens — The Literature of the Kymry (1849)
 * Morris Williams (Nicander)
 * Y Flwyddyn Eglwysig (1843)
 * Llyfr yr Homiliau (1847)

Music

 * Rosser Beynon — Telyn Seion (1845)
 * John Ambrose Lloyd — Y Ganaan Glyd (1845)
 * Rowland Prichard — Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend) (1844)
 * Robert Herbert Williams — Alawydd Trefriw (1848)

Births

 * 1840
 * September 16 — Alfred Thomas, 1st Baron Pontypridd (died 1927)
 * November 29 — Rhoda Broughton, novelist (died 1920)
 * December 3 — Francis Kilvert, diarist (died 1879)
 * December 5 — John E. Jones, governor of Nevada (died 1896)
 * December 17 — Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician (died 1935)
 * date unknown — John Rhŷs, educationist (died 1915)
 * 1841
 * January 28 — Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (died 1904)
 * May 21 — Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
 * November 9 — Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII; died 1910)
 * 1842
 * June 14 — William Abraham (Mabon), politician (died 1922)
 * September 28 — William John Parry, quarrymen's leader (died 1927)
 * 1843
 * May 12 — Thomas William Rhys Davids, founder of the Pali Text Society (died 1922)
 * December 20 — Frances Hoggan, first British woman to qualify as a doctor (died 1927)
 * 1844
 * April 28 — Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
 * July 28 — Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)
 * December 1 — Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901–1910
 * 1845
 * February 24 — Alfred Lewis Jones, shipping magnate (died 1909)
 * June 21 — Samuel Griffith, Premier of Queensland (died 1920)
 * October 10 — Timothy Richard, missionary
 * 1847
 * date unknown
 * Daniel James, hymn-writer (died 1920)
 * Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer (died 1933)
 * 1848
 * September 18 — Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)
 * December 30 — David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)
 * 1849

Deaths

 * 1841
 * June 8 — John Elias, preacher (born 1774)
 * date unknown — John Blackwell (Alun), poet (born 1797)
 * 1842
 * August 20 — Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Vivian, relation of the Vivian family of Swansea (born 1775)
 * 1843
 * March 26 — Robert Richford Roberts, Welsh-descended Methodist leader in the USA
 * March 27 — Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny (born 1755)
 * 1845
 * January 1 — Sir William Nott, military leader (born 1782)
 * 1848
 * March 18 — John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff (born 1793)
 * date unknown — Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian (born 1787)
 * 1849
 * March 21 — William Sherley Williams, Welsh-descended pioneer
 * September 16 — Thomas Jones, missionary