1847 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1847 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1847 to Wales and its people.

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14 January - All thirteen members of the Point of Ayr lifeboat crew are drowned when it capsizes off Rhyl.^[1]
8 April - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) is transferred from Norfolk Island to Tasmania.
In the UK general election:
- Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis becomes MP for Radnor Boroughs.
- Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet, loses his Flintshire seat to Edward Lloyd-Mostyn for the second time.
24 May - Five people are killed in the Dee bridge disaster, when Robert Stephenson's railway bridge on the Chester and Holyhead Railway at Chester collapses.^[2]
1 July - Publication of the government report on education in Wales (the "Blue Books"), containing opinions hostile to Welsh culture.
Prince Albert, is unsuccessfully challenged for the chancellorship of the University of Cambridge by The Earl of Powis. The winning margin is less than 120 votes.
Sir William Robert Grove is awarded the medal of the Royal Society.

13 January - Daniel James (Gwyrosydd), hymn-writer (died 1920)
27 January - , choirmaster and conductor (died 1926)
9 February - Hugh Price Hughes, Methodist social reformer (died 1902)
22 April - (died 1911)
20 June - Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig), clergyman and author (died 1927)
10 July - Alfred Neobard Palmer, historian and ancient monuments inspector (died 1915)
12 September - John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, Cardiff landowner (died 1900)
13 October - Owen Owen, draper (died 1910 in London)
14 November - , musician (died 1927)
date unknown - Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer (died 1933)

13 February - Sharon Turner, historian, 78
16 February - Taliesin Williams, poet and author, son of Iolo Morganwg, 59^[3]
17 March - Sir Harford Jones Brydges, diplomat and author, 83^[4]
29 March - , Calvinistic Methodist leader, 59
7 June - David Mushet, Scottish metallurgist (in Monmouth), 74^[5]
27 September - Lucy Thomas, colliery owner ('The Mother of the Welsh Steam Coal Trade')^[6]
6 October - John Evans (Methodist), 68^[7]

^ Reference Wales. University of Wales Press. 1994. p. 245. ISBN 978-0-7083-1234-6.
^ Michael R. Bailey (5 July 2017). Robert Stephenson – The Eminent Engineer. Taylor & Francis. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-351-90272-4.
^ Griffith John Williams. "Williams, Taliesin (Taliesin ab Iolo; 1787-1847), poet and author". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
^ George Fisher Russell Barker; Milverton Godfrey Dauglish (1886). Historical and Political Handbook. Chapman. p. 339.
^ Fred Marmaduke Osborn (1952). The story of the Mushets. T. Nelson. p. 27.
^ Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal. Council of the National Library of Wales. 1958. p. 416.
^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Evans, John (1779-1847)". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.