1839 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1839 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1839 to Wales and its people.

Incumbent[]

Monarch - Victoria

Events[]

March – John Frost, former mayor of Newport, is deprived of his position as a magistrate because of his Chartist sympathies.
30 April – Chartists riot in Llanidloes and seize control of the town for five days.
7 May – Henry Vincent is arrested after addressing a Chartist meeting and taken to prison at Monmouth.^[1]
13 May – Beginning of the Rebecca Riots.
25 July – William Ewart Gladstone marries Catherine Glynne of Hawarden.
28 August – Mary Anne Lewis, widow of Cardiff MP Wyndham Lewis, marries Benjamin Disraeli.^[2]
5 October – Opening of West Bute Dock.
4 November – Newport Rising: between 5,000 and 10,000 Chartist sympathisers led by John Frost, many of them coal miners, march on the Westgate Hotel in Newport, Monmouthshire, to liberate Chartist prisoners; around 22 are killed when troops, directed by Thomas Phillips, the mayor, fire on the crowd.^[3] This is the last large-scale armed civil rebellion against authority in mainland Britain and sees the most deaths.
23 November – Zephaniah Williams, one of the leaders of the Chartist march on Newport, is arrested on board ship at Cardiff.^[4]
date unknown – Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis resigns as chairman of the Poor Law Commission, to be replaced by his son, George Cornewall Lewis.

Arts and literature[]

New books[]

William Bingley – Excursions in North Wales
Maria James – Wales and other Poems
William Williams (Caledfryn) – Drych Barddonol

Music[]

John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt) – Hafilah (hymn tune)

Births[]

9 January – Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer (d. 1916)^[5]
13 February (in England) – Robert Bird, politician (d. 1909)
7 March (in Germany) – Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist (d. 1909)^[6]
31 March – Thomas Henry Thomas (Arlunydd Penygarn) later known as T. H. Thomas, artist (d. 1915)^[7]
24 September (in England) – John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor (d. 1931)^[8]

Deaths[]

27 January – Sir Charles Paget, MP for Caernarfon, 60 (yellow fever)^[9]
11 May – "Doctor" , Cwrt-y-cadno, physician, 54
16 May – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis, 84^[10]
20 May – Rice Rees, historian, 35
29 December – Hopkin Bevan, minister and author, 74^[11]

References[]

^ A Gwent Anthology. Christopher Davies. 1988. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-7154-0655-7.
^ Paul Smith (12 September 1996). Disraeli: A Brief Life. Cambridge University Press. pp. 37. ISBN 978-0-521-38150-5.
^ "John Lovell and the People's Charter". The struggle for democracy. Kew: The National Archives. 2003. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
^ David Egan (1 January 1987). People, Protest, and Politics: Case Studies in Nineteenth Century Wales. Gomer Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-86383-350-2.
^ William Llewelyn Davies. "Rees, Sarah Jane (Cranogwen; 1839-1916), schoolmistress, poet, editor, temperance advocate". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
^ Chemical Society (Great Britain) (1918). Journal of the Chemical Society. The Society. p. 318.
^ William Llewelyn Davies. "Thomas, Thomas Henry (Arlunydd Penygarn; 1839-1915), artist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2020.
^ Trinity College (University of Cambridge) (1913). Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge ... Macmillan and Company, Limited. p. 700.
^ Edward Clarence Paget (1913). Memoir of the Honble Sir Charles Paget, G.C.H., 1778-1839. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 105.
^ R. G. Thorne, CLIVE, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, 1986.
^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index. Herald Office. p. 195.

[1] A Gwent Anthology. Christopher Davies. 1988. p. 134. ISBN 978-0-7154-0655-7.

[2] Paul Smith (12 September 1996). Disraeli: A Brief Life. Cambridge University Press. pp. 37. ISBN 978-0-521-38150-5.

[3] "John Lovell and the People's Charter". The struggle for democracy. Kew: The National Archives. 2003. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007. Retrieved 11 May 2019.

[4] David Egan (1 January 1987). People, Protest, and Politics: Case Studies in Nineteenth Century Wales. Gomer Press. p. 85. ISBN 978-0-86383-350-2.

[5] William Llewelyn Davies. "Rees, Sarah Jane (Cranogwen; 1839-1916), schoolmistress, poet, editor, temperance advocate". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2020.

[6] Chemical Society (Great Britain) (1918). Journal of the Chemical Society. The Society. p. 318.

[7] William Llewelyn Davies. "Thomas, Thomas Henry (Arlunydd Penygarn; 1839-1915), artist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 November 2020.

[8] Trinity College (University of Cambridge) (1913). Admissions to Trinity College, Cambridge ... Macmillan and Company, Limited. p. 700.

[9] Edward Clarence Paget (1913). Memoir of the Honble Sir Charles Paget, G.C.H., 1778-1839. Longmans, Green and Company. p. 105.

[10] R. G. Thorne, CLIVE, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820, 1986.

[11] Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index. Herald Office. p. 195.

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