1851 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1851 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1851 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

• 24 September — Vale of Neath Railway opens from Neath to Aberdare.
• August — William Bulkeley Hughes hosts a banquet at Bangor for Robert Stephenson.
• Richard Fothergill III is prosecuted for running a "truck shop" at Aberdare.
• David Davies (Llandinam) marries Margaret Jones of Llanfair Caereinion.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Blackwell (Alun) — Ceinion Alun (posthumously published)
• Richard Williams Morgan — A Tragedy of Powys Castle

Music

• Thomas Jones (Gogrynwr) — Gweddi Habacuc (cantata)
• John Ambrose Lloyd — Teyrnasoedd y Ddaear (anthem)
• John Owen (Owain Alaw)
  • Deborah a Barac (anthem)
  • Gweddi Habacuc (cantata)

Births

• 8 February — Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet (d. 1933)
• 10 March — William Haggar, pioneer of the film industry (d. 1925)
• 24 March — Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan) (d. 1906)
• 15 June — Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist (d. 1932)
• 8 July — Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist (d. 1941)
• 12 July — Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, promoter of women's education (died 1925)
• 27 December — Percy Gilchrist, industrialist

Deaths

• 6 April — William Morgan Kinsey, travel writer, 62?
• 30 June — Thomas Phillips, founder of Llandovery College, 80
• 17 July — Aneurin Owen, historian, 58
• 22 November — Thomas Morgan, navy chaplain, 81