1855 in Wales

← 1854 1853 1852 1851 1850 1855 in Wales → 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1855 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1855 to Wales and its people.

Incumbent[]

• Monarch - Victoria

Events[]

• 25 February – The steamship Morna is wrecked off , with the loss of 21 lives.^[1]
• 30 March – The Severn ferry from Chepstow sinks, and seven people drown.
• Construction of the first section of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway begins.

Arts and literature[]

New books[]

• John Jones (Talhaiarn) – Gwaith Talhaiarn, vol. 1
• William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Gweithiau Barddonol Gwilym Hiraethog
• William Williams (Creuddynfab) – Y Barddoniadur

Music[]

• Death of James Green of Bron y Garth, last of the traditional crwth players.^[2]

Births[]

• 11 February – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player (died 1889)
• 9 April – , poet (died 1902)
• 16 August – William David Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1918)
• 11 December – David Thomas Ffrangcon Davies, singer (died 1918)

Deaths[]

• 21 January – Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd), poet, 59
• 22 January – Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician, 74
• 9 February – , industrialist, 81
• 28 June – FitzRoy Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan, 66
• probable
  • , printer and publisher, ?68
  • , poet^[3]

References[]