1848 in Wales

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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.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

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

Arts and literature

Births

• 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 John Purser Griffiths, civil engineer (died 1938)
• 2 November – Alfred George Edwards, first Archbishop of Wales (died 1917)
• 30 December – David Jenkins, composer (died 1915)
• Charles Ashton police officer, literary historian and bibliophile (suicide 1899)

Deaths

• 17 January – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 63 (accidentally shot by his son)
• 18 March – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, creator of modern Cardiff, 54
• 27 March – William Ellis Jones, poet, 52
• 2 April – Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick, antiquary, 64
• 7 November – Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), poet and historian, 61

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