# 1849 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1849 to Wales and its people.

## Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
* Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
* Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
* Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
* Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
* Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (from 4 May)
* Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn
* Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
* Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley
* Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
* Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
* Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston (until 14 October); Alfred Ollivant (from 2 December)
* Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
* Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall

## Events

* 2 January – Completion of both tubes of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.
* 26 February – Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones embarks with 249 Welsh converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bound for Salt Lake City from Liverpool.
* 13 May – A case of cholera is recorded in Cardiff, the beginning of an outbreak that spreads to Merthyr, Dowlais and Aberdare, and kills 800 people.
* 20 June – First tube of Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge is floated into position on the Menai Strait.
* 10 August – Underground explosion at Lletty Shenkin colliery, Cwmbach, kills 52.
* 1 November – Alfred Ollivant becomes Bishop of Llandaff.
* 13 December – Foundation stone of Llandovery College is laid.
* A temperance festival is held at Carmarthen.

## Arts and literature
### Awards

* David Griffith (Clwydfardd) is appointed official bard of the Aberffraw eisteddfod. Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn) is also invested as a bard.

### New books
#### English language

* Anne Beale – Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry
* Lady Charlotte Guest concludes publication of her translation into English of the Mabinogion
* John Lloyd – The English Country Gentleman
* Samuel Lewis – Topographical Dictionary of Wales
* Thomas Stephens – The Literature of the Kymry

#### Welsh language

* Robert Elis (Cynddelw) – Yr Adgyfodiad
* Hugh Derfel Hughes – Y Gweithiwr Caniadgar
* Rowland Hughes – Cyfarchiad Caredig i rai newydd ddychwelyd
* John Jones (Talhaiarn) – Awdl y Greadigaeth

### Music

* Haleliwia (hymns)

## Births

* 2 May – Charles James Jackson, businessman and collector (d. 1923)

## Deaths

* 14 August – Edward Copleston, Bishop of Llandaff, 73
* 16 September – Thomas Jones, missionary, 39
* 2 October – James Davies, schoolmaster, 83
* 2 November – Jacob Davies, missionary, 33
* 5 December – Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), poet, 88