1846 in Wales

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey

• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams

• 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 – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute

• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn

• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh

• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis

• 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

• Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey (until 13 September); Thomas Vowler Short (from 27 October)

• Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall (from 9 August)

Events

• 14 January - 35 men are killed in a mining accident at Risca.
• March - A speech by William Williams, MP for Coventry, on the subject of education and the Welsh language leads to the commissioning of a report.
• 27 June - Thomas Frankland Lewis is created a baronet.
• 1 August - Opening of the Aberdare railway.
• 3 August - Mary Cornelia Edwards of Plas Machynlleth marries George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry.
• October - New bridge over the River Towy at Llandeilo collapses under construction.
• date unknown
  • The new cast-iron Llandinam Bridge in Montgomeryshire is opened.
  • The rebuilt Beaumaris Pier is partially opened.
  • Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones becomes mission president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales, concentrating the church's efforts around Merthyr Tydfil, publishing (from July) the Welsh language monthly Prophwyd y Jubili and also the tract Hanes Saint y Dyddiau Diweddaf.
  • The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis.

Arts and literature

New books

• Griffith Edwards (Gutyn Padarn) - Gwaith Prydyddawl
• Daniel Silvan Evans - Telynegion
• Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613...
• William Morgan (Gwilym Gelli-deg) - Cerbyd Awen

Music

• Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol (collection of hymns)

Births

• 8 January - Henry Bracy, tenor (d. 1917)
• 1 October - John Cadvan Davies, minister and poet (d. 1823)
• 17 October - Mary Davies (Mair Eifion), poet (d. 1882)
• 24 November - Tom Hurry Riches, steam locomotive engineer (d. 1911)
• 6 December - James Charles, theologian (d. 1920)
• 28 December - William Frost, harpist (d. 1891)
• 3 August - Samuel M. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio (d. 1904)

Deaths

• 9 March - William Hughes, composer, 88
• 28 March - Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), poet, 53
• 26 June - Honoratus Leigh Thomas, surgeon, 77
• 29 July - John Owens, educational benefactor, 55
• 13 September – William Carey, Bishop of St Asaph, 76
• October - John Evans, surgeon and cartographer, 90
• 3 December - Daniel Jones, missionary, 33
• 5 December - Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet, politician, 86

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