1836 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1836 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1836 to Wales and its people.

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20 April – Opening of the Ffestiniog Railway, the first narrow-gauge railway in the world.^[1]
21 June – An Act of Parliament is passed, allowing the construction of the Taff Vale Railway.^[2]
June – Crawshay Bailey buys the Aberaman estate from the family of Anthony Bacon at auction.^[3]
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- The final known duel in Wales takes place, fought with pistols at Gumfreston Hall in Pembrokeshire, between MP Sir John Owen and former Tenby mayor William Richards. Richards is badly wounded.^[4]
- launches the periodical Yr Athraw.^[5]
- The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites is established in Wrexham by Thomas Robert Jones, it is Wales' first friendly society.^[6]

Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) - Hanes Cymru a Chenedl y Cymry o'r Cynoesoedd hyd at Farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 1^[7]
Rice Rees - An Essay on the Welsh Saints
Thomas Roscoe - Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales
Samuel Prideaux Tregelles - Passages in the Old Testament connected with the Revelation
John Williams (Ab Ithel) - Eglwys Loegr yn Anymddibynol ar Eglwys Rhufain

30 January – Lewis Jones, one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1904)
15 March - , teacher and author (d. 1906)
1 April - , balladeer (d. 1915)
26 May - Sir John Dillwyn-Llewellyn, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1927)
5 July - Evan Herber Evans, Nonconformist leader (d. 1896)
6 October - Allen Raine, novelist (d. 1908)^[8]
20 October - Daniel Owen, novelist (d. 1895)
9 November – Isaac Foulkes, newspaper proprietor (d. 1904)
9 November – Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen, politician (d. 1905)

^ Donald J. Grant (31 October 2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
^ Donald J. Grant (31 October 2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 553. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
^ Morgannwg. Glamorgan History Society. 1976. p. 30.
^ May, John (1994). A Chronicle of Welsh Events. Swansea: Christopher Davies Ltd. p. 67. ISBN 0-7154-0723-6.
^ Bye-gones, Relating to Wales and the Border Counties. 1909. p. 57.
^ Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 255. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.
^ George Long (1843). The penny cyclopædia [ed. by G. Long]. p. 222.
^ David Jenkins. "Puddicombe, Anne Adalisa ('Allen Raine'; 1836-1908), novelist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
^ Bob Owen. "Williams, William (Gwilym Twrog; 1768-1836), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
^ "COLE, Sir Christopher (1770-1836), of Penrice Castle, Glam". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
^ Evan David Jones. "Jones, Edward (1761-1836), poet, farmer, and schoolmaster". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 January 2020.