1848 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1848 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1848 to Wales and its people.

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1 March – Llandovery College opens in the building known as the "Depot".^[1]
1 May – Opening for Chester and Holyhead Railway traffic of the first tube of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.^[2]
1 August – Opening of an isolated section of the Chester and Holyhead Railway across Anglesey from Llanfair to Holyhead.^[2]
24 August – The American barque Ocean Monarch, loaded with would-be immigrants, catches fire off Colwyn Bay, with the loss of 178 lives.^[3]
24 October – Trinity College, Carmarthen is established (as the South Wales and Monmouthshire Training College), to train teachers for the Church of England.^[4]
14 November – Opening of the North Wales County Pauper Lunatic Asylum (North Wales Hospital), Denbigh.^[5]
The new Llandeilo Bridge is completed, with a span of 145 feet (44 m) over the River Towy.^[6]
Merthyr Tydfil Hebrew Congregation formed.
Butchers' Market in Wrexham opened.
Michael D. Jones becomes a minister in Cincinnati, Ohio.

23 January – Daniel James, bardic poet and lyricist of Calon Lân (died 1920)
12 February – Beriah Gwynfe Evans, journalist and dramatist (died 1927)
18 September – Robert Harris, painter (died 1919)
5 October – Sir , civil engineer (died 1938)
2 November – A. G. Edwards, first Archbishop of Wales (died 1917)
30 December – David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)
Charles Ashton police officer, literary historian and bibliophile (suicide 1899)

17 January – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 63 (accidentally shot by his son)^[7]
23 February – Lord Granville Somerset, MP for Monmouthshire, 55
18 March – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff, 54^[8]
27 March – , poet, 52
2 April – Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquary, 64
7 November – Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian, 61^[9]
15 November – David Hiram Williams, geologist and surveyor, 36^[10]
23 December – James Cowles Prichard, physician and ethnologist of Welsh parentage, 62

^ David Trevor William Price (1977). A History of Saint David's University College Lampeter: to 1898. University of Wales Press. p. 71. ISBN 978-0-7083-0606-2.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Baughan, Peter E. (1972). The Chester & Holyhead Railway. 1. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0-7153-5617-8.
^ The London Journal: and Weekly Record of Literature, Science, and Art. G. Vickers. 1848. p. 1.
^ National Library of Wales (1993). Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal. Council of the National Library of Wales. p. 326.
^ Kathryn Burtinshaw; John R F Burt (30 April 2017). Lunatics, Imbeciles and Idiots: A History of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Britain and Ireland. Pen and Sword. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-4738-7906-5.
^ Roger Cragg (1997). Wales and West Central England. Thomas Telford. p. 77. ISBN 978-0-7277-2576-9.
^ Evan David Jones. "Herbert family (earls of Powis)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
^ Davies, John (1981). Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute. Cardiff, UK: University of Wales Press. ISBN 9780708324639.
^ Brinley Rees. "Price, Thomas (Carnhuanawc; 1787-1848), historian and antiquary". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 18 September 2019.
^ Allen's Indian Mail Vol VII No 117 London Monday, 22 January 1849 p41