1841 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1841 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams
 * 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 – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
 * 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 – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
 * Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
 * 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 – Connop Thirlwall

Events

 * 19 February - The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead after colliding with a steamer, with the loss of 123 lives.
 * 9 March - The first known photograph is taken in Wales, of Margam Castle by Calvert Jones.
 * 12 April - The Taff Vale Railway is extended to Merthyr Tydfil
 * 26 July - The proprietors of The Skerries Lighthouse off Anglesey, the last privately owned light in the British Isles, are awarded £444,984 in compensation for its sale to Trinity House.
 * 19 August - In the United Kingdom general election, William Edwards stands as a Chartist candidate in Monmouth Boroughs and becomes the only Parliamentary candidate in Wales, ever, not to win a single vote.
 * 8 December - The month-old Albert Edward, eldest son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, is created Prince of Wales by letters patent.
 * date unknown
 * Founding of Bala-Bangor Congregational College.
 * Poor Law Amendment Act is passed, largely thanks to the efforts of Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
 * Mordecai Jones opens a brewery at Brecon.
 * The Brymbo ironworks are bought out of Chancery after a long period of litigation and reopened by a limited company.
 * Opening of Swansea Museum by the Royal Institution of South Wales.
 * Land is earmarked by Welsh immigrants in Ohio for the building of Tyn Rhos Chapel.

New books

 * David Owen (Brutus) - Gweithrediadau yr Eglwys Sefydledig
 * Welsh Book of Common Prayer (new edition)

Births

 * 28 January - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (as John Rowlands; died 1904)
 * 14 February
 * Sir John Gibson, journalist (died 1915)
 * William Reginald Herbert, horseman (died 1929)
 * 5 April - Robert Rees, singer and musician (died 1892)
 * 23 April - Henry Hughes, minister and historian (died 1924)
 * 29 April - Francis Grenfell, 1st Baron Grenfell, soldier (died 1925)
 * 21 May - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
 * 26 June (in London) - James Cholmeley Russell, railway entrepreneur (died 1912)
 * 9 November (in London) - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII of the United Kingdom (died 1910)

Deaths

 * 17 January - David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet, 56
 * 12 May - Joseph Tudor Hughes, harpist, 13 (drowning)
 * 19 May - John Blackwell (Alun), poet, 42
 * 1 May - David Jones, missionary, 44
 * 24 May - Thomas Roberts, Llwyn'rhudol, co-founder of Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion, 75-80
 * 8 June - John Elias, preacher, 67
 * 4 December - David Daniel Davis, physician, 64