1850 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1850 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 5 March — Opening of the Britannia Bridge.
- 16 June — Opening of the South Wales Railway between Chepstow and Swansea.
- November — Launch of the periodical Y Drych.
- 14 December — 13 men are killed in a mining accident at New Duffryn Colliery, Mountain Ash.
- G. T. Clark marries Ann Price Lewis, a descendant of one of the original partners in the Dowlais Ironworks.
- The Llanelli Board of Health is founded, with William Chambers as its first chairman.
- The Merthyr Board of Health is founded, with John Josiah Guest as its first chairman.
Arts and literature
New books
- Thomas Edwards (Caerfallwch) — Geirlyfr Saesoneg a Chymraeg, An English and Welsh Dictionary
- Elijah Waring — Recollections and Anecdotes of Edward Williams
- Morris Williams (Nicander) — Y Psalmwyr
Births
- 4 January — Griffith J. Griffith, industrialist (died 1919)
- 16 April — Sidney Gilchrist Thomas, inventor (died 1885)
Deaths
- 11 April
- David Hughes, clergyman and writer, 64?
- Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), poet, 77
- 18 April — John Richards, Welsh-born US politician, 85
- 19 April — Sir John Edwards of Garth, politician, 80
- 11 July — Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet and hymn-writer, 83
- 28 July — David Lewis, Carmarthenshire priest and writer, 90?
- 2 September — Charles Watkin Williams-Wynn, politician, 74
- 19 December — George Williams, politician, 85
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