1840 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1840 to Wales and its people.
Incumbent[]
- Monarch - Victoria
Events[]
- 1 January - Trial of Chartists John Frost, Zephaniah Williams and William Jones for their part in the Newport Rising of 1839 continues at Monmouth[1] before Chief Justice Tindal. This is the first trial where proceedings are recorded in shorthand.
- 16 January - Frost, Williams and Jones are all found guilty of high treason for their part in the Chartist riots,[2] and are sentenced to death - the last time the sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering is passed in the United Kingdom, although following a nationwide petitioning campaign and, extraordinarily, direct lobbying of the Home Secretary by the Lord Chief Justice, it is commuted to transportation for life (and Frost is much later pardoned).
- 5 June - Joseph Brown is appointed Vicar Apostolic of the Roman Catholic District of Wales, being consecrated as a bishop on 28 October.
- 8 October - Taff Vale Railway is officially opened, the first steam-worked passenger railway in Wales, running from Cardiff docks to Navigation House at Abercynon via the Cardiff station known in modern days as Queen Street.[3][4] Public service begins the following day.
- 30 October - First branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales formed in Flintshire.[5]
- 18 November - The paddle steamer City of Bristol is wrecked at Llangennith, Gower, drowning about 22 people.[6]
- Approximate date - Rebuilding of Gregynog Hall with extensive use of concrete begins.[7]
Arts and literature[]
- An eisteddfod is held at Liverpool.
New books[]
English language[]
- Sir John Hanmer - Memorials of the Parish and Family of Hanmer
- William Lloyd - The Narrative of a Journey from Cawnpoor to the Boorendo Pass
Welsh language[]
- (Eta Delta) - Y Weinidogaeth a'r Eglwysi
- - Y Catechism Cyntaf
- Taliesin Williams - Hynafiaeth ac Awdurdodaeth Coelbren y Beirdd
Music[]
- John Orlando Parry - Wanted: a Governess (opera)
Births[]
- 7 February - Charles Warren, military and police officer and archaeologist (died 1927)
- 21 June - Sir John Rhŷs, educationist (died 1915)
- 16 September - Alfred Thomas, 1st Baron Pontypridd (died 1927)
- 29 November - Rhoda Broughton, novelist (died 1920)[8]
- 3 December - Francis Kilvert, diarist (died 1879)
- 5 December - John E. Jones, governor of Nevada (died 1896)
- 17 December - Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician (died 1935)
Deaths[]
- 6 January - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet, politician and soldier, 67
- 17 March - William Williams of Wern, 58
- 19 May - John Blackwell (Alun), poet, 42?
References[]
- ^ Frost, John (1839). Trial of John Frost for high treason: revised by a Barrister. p. 19.
- ^ Maunder, Samuel; Cox, George William (1856). The Treasury of History (New ed.). Longman & Co. pp. 499–.
- ^ Barrie, D. S. (1950). The Taff Vale Railway. Oakwood Press.
- ^ Edward Cresy (1847). An Encyclopædia of Civil Engineering, Historical, Theoretical, and Practical. Paternoster-Row: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. pp. 595.
- ^ "Wales". Retrieved 10 June 2014.
- ^ Bennett, Tom. Shipwrecks for Walkers 1: A Walkers Guide to Beach Wrecks Around Britain. Author. pp. 28–. GGKEY:EA61KY0D96E.
- ^ Hughes, Glyn Tegai; Morgan, Prys; Thomas, J. Gareth (1977). Gregynog. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-0634-5.
- ^ Broughton, Rhoda (March 2010). Cometh Up As A Flower. Broadview Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-1-77048-295-1.
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