1844 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 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 – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite


 * Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
 * Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey
 * Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

Events

 * 1 January - 11 or 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.
 * 14 February - 40 men are killed when the Cleddau floods the Garden Pit coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire.
 * 8 March - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) embarks on the Blundell for transportation to Norfolk Island, his sentence for shooting at a man during the Rebecca Riots.
 * 13 May - 7 or 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston, Pembrokeshire.
 * 3 December - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
 * 31 December - David Williams takes out a lease on a mine at Cwmbach, in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed.
 * date unknown
 * A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire.
 * Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.

New books

 * Hugh Derfel Hughes - Blodau'r Gân
 * David Owen (Brutus) - Eliasia

Music

 * Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend)
 * Maria Jane Williams - Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg

Visual arts

 * English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.

Sport

 * Denbigh Cricket Club is founded.

Births

 * 1 January - Robert Clayton, cricketer (died 1901)
 * 7 March - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905)
 * 28 April - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
 * June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887)
 * 28 July - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)
 * 3 August - Herbert Armitage James, clergyman and schoolmaster (died 1931)
 * 1 December - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)

Deaths

 * 18 January - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69
 * 7 April - Morgan Lewis, Welsh-descended American politician, 89
 * 8 November - Iltid Nicholl, lawyer, 67/68
 * 23 November - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83