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Шаблон:Use Welsh English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams[5][6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh[12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[13]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet[14]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite[15][2]
- Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell[16][17]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston[18]
- Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey[19][20][18]
- Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall[21][18][22]
Events
- 1 January - 11 or 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.[23]
- 14 February - 40 men are killed when the Cleddau floods the Garden Pit coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire.[24]
- 8 March - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) embarks on the Blundell for transportation to Norfolk Island, his sentence for shooting at a man during the Rebecca Riots.[25]
- 13 May - 7 or 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston, Pembrokeshire.[26]
- 3 December - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
- 31 December - David Williams takes out a lease on a mine at Cwmbach, in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed.[27]
- date unknown
- A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire.[28]
- Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.[29]
Arts and literature
New books
- Hugh Derfel Hughes - Blodau'r Gân
- David Owen (Brutus) - Eliasia
Music
- Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend)
- Maria Jane Williams - Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg
Visual arts
- English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.
Sport
Births
- 1 January - Robert Clayton, cricketer (died 1901)
- 7 March - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905)
- 28 April - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895)
- June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887)
- 28 July - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)[31]
- 3 August - Herbert Armitage James, clergyman and schoolmaster (died 1931)[32]
- 1 December - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)
Deaths
- 18 January - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69[33][34]
- 7 April - Morgan Lewis, Welsh-descended American politician, 89
- 8 November - Iltid Nicholl, lawyer, 67/68[35]
- 23 November - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83
See also
References
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- ↑ Denbigh Cricket Club website. Accessed 21 March 2013
- ↑ Norman White, "Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–1889)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press.
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- ↑ "Iltid Nicholl, Esq.", The Gentleman's Magazine, NS, vol. 23 (January–June 1845), p. 316.
