1844 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1844 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

January 1 - 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda.
February 14 - 40 men are killed by flooding in a coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire.
May 13 - 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston.
December 3 - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda.
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.
Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.

English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.

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