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1840s in Wales
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December 2025
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1840–1849 to Wales and its people.
Events
1840
1841
1842
1843
1844
1845
1846
1847
1848
1849
Arts and literature
New books
English language
Anne Beale — Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry (1849)s-BEAL-ANN-1816 Beale, Anne (1816-1900), writer William Williams 10 December 2025
John Hughes — The Self-Searcher (1848)s-HUGH-JOH-1787 Hughes, John (1787-1860), archdeacon, Evangelical cleric, and writer Daniel Williams 10 December 2023
John Jenkins — National Education (1848)
Samuel Lewis — Topographical Dictionary of Wales (1849) Lewis Samuel A Topographical Dictionary of Wales vol. I & II 4th British History Online 1849 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/wales 23 September 2024
John Lloyd
Poems (1847)
The English Country Gentleman (1849)
Richard Williams Morgan — Maynooth and St. Asaph (1848)
Edward Parry — Railway Companion from Chester to Holyhead (1848)
Thomas Stephens — The Literature of the Kymry (1849)Stephens Thomas https://archive.org/details/literatureofkymr00steprich/page/n9/mode/2up The Literature of the Kymry Longmans, Green, & Co. 1876 Evans Sylvan 2nd London
Welsh language
Robert Elis (Cynddelw) — Yr Adgyfodiad (1849)s-ELLI-ROB-1808 Ellis, Robert (1808 - 1881), Calvinistic Methodist minister 10 December 2023
Morris Williams (Nicander)
Y Flwyddyn Eglwysig (1843)s-WILL-MOR-1809 Williams, Morris (Nicander; 1809-1874), cleric and man of letters Thomas Iorwerth Ellis 10 December 2025
Llyfr yr Homiliau (1847)
Music
Rosser Beynon — Telyn Seion (1845)
John Ambrose Lloyd — Y Ganaan Glyd (1845)
Rowland Prichard — Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend) (1844)
Robert Herbert Williams — Alawydd Trefriw (1848)
References
Category:19th century in Wales
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