1826 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1826 to Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...

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Events

  • January 30 - Opening of the Menai Suspension Bridge
    Menai Suspension Bridge
    The Menai Suspension Bridge is a suspension bridge between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales. Designed by Thomas Telford and completed in 1826, it was the first modern suspension bridge in the world.-Construction:...

    , designed by Thomas Telford
    Thomas Telford
    Thomas Telford FRS, FRSE was a Scottish civil engineer, architect and stonemason, and a noted road, bridge and canal builder.-Early career:...

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  • July 1 - Opening of Telford's Conwy Suspension Bridge
    Conwy Suspension Bridge
    Conwy Suspension Bridge, was one of the first road suspension bridges in the world. Located in the medieval town of Conwy in Conwy county borough, North Wales, it is now only passable on foot. The bridge is now in the care of the National Trust...

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  • The Calvinistic Methodist "connexion" produces its Constitutional Deed. It incorporates all property (such as chapels) as the property of the connexion as a whole.

New books

  • Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion)
    Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion)
    Daniel Evans , better known by his pseudonym, Daniel Ddu o Geredigion, was a Welsh language poet.- Life :Evans was born at Maesymynach, a farm in the parish of Llanfihangel Ystrad, Cardiganshire. He was the second of three sons born to a farmer, David Evans...

     - Golwg ar Gyflwr yr Iddewon, Cerdd
  • James Humphreys
    James Humphreys (lawyer)
    James Humphreys was a Welsh barrister, law reformer and legal writer. He was educated at Shrewsbury School and called to the bar in 1800 by Lincoln's Inn. Politically he was a Liberal. His major publication in the field of law reform was Observations on the Actual State of the English Laws of...

     - Observations on the Actual State of the English Laws of Real Property, with the outlines of a Code

Music

  • May 24 - John Parry (Bardd Alaw) is given a benefit concert by the Society of Cymmrodorion.

Births

  • January 13 - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff
    Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff
    Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff PC, QC was a British lawyer and Conservative politician. He is best remembered for his role in the 1885 Sir Charles Dilke divorce trial and for his tenure as Home Secretary from 1886 to 1892.-Background and education:The member of an old Herefordshire family,...

     (d. 1913)
  • March 1 - John Thomas
    John Thomas (harpist)
    John Thomas was a Welsh composer and harpist. The bardic name Pencerdd Gwalia was conferred on him at the 1861 Aberdare Eisteddfod....

    , harpist (d. 1913)
  • May 8 - George Osborne Morgan
    George Osborne Morgan
    Sir George Osborne Morgan, 1st Baronet PC, QC, was a Welsh lawyer and Liberal politician.Born at Gothenburg, Sweden, he was educated at Friars School, Bangor, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford, and was a scholar of Worcester College, Oxford from 1847.He became a barrister of Lincoln's...

    , lawyer (d. 1897)
  • May 11 - David Charles Davies
    David Charles Davies
    David Charles Davies was a Welsh Nonconformist minister.He was born at Aberystwyth, his father being a merchant and a pioneer of Welsh Methodism, and his mother a niece of Thomas Charles of Bala. He was educated in his native town by a noted schoolmaster, John Evans, at Bala College, and at...

    , Nonconformist leader (d. 1891)

Deaths

  • April - Ned Turner, prize-fighter, 34
  • December 18 - Iolo Morganwg
    Iolo Morganwg
    Edward Williams, better known by his bardic name Iolo Morganwg , was an influential Welsh antiquarian, poet, collector, and literary forger. He was widely considered a leading collector and expert on medieval Welsh literature in his day, but after his death it was revealed that he had forged a...

    , poet and antiquary, 79
  • December 28 - Nathaniel Williams
    Nathaniel Williams
    -Life:Nathaniel Williams was the son of Thomas Williams, from Swansea in south Wales. Nathaniel Williams studied at the University of Oxford, matriculating as a member of Jesus College in 1672 and obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1676. He wrote two books: A Pindaric Elegy on the famous...

    , theologian and hymn-writer, 84

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    • Richard Griffiths
      Richard Griffiths (industrialist)
      Dr. Richard Griffiths was a Welsh industrial pioneer. Griffiths is notable for building the first recognised transport links into the Rhondda Valley paving the way for future coal exploration into one of the world's richest coal fields....

      , industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda
      Rhondda
      Rhondda , or the Rhondda Valley , is a former coal mining valley in Wales, formerly a local government district, consisting of 16 communities built around the River Rhondda. The valley is made up of two valleys, the larger Rhondda Fawr valley and the smaller Rhondda Fach valley...

      , 70
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