:1835 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1835 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort (until 23 November);{{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}} Penry Williams (from 24 December){{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster{{cite journal|journal=Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders|title=not known|author-link=William Retlaw Williams|publisher="Old Wales" Office|year=1907|volume=3|page=106}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=612}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort (until 23 November); Capel Hanbury Leigh (from 24 December{{cite book|author=Amy Audrey Locke|title=The Hanbury Family|publisher=Arthur L. Humphreys|year=1916|page=147}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis{{cite DWB|id=s-POWY-HER-1674|title=Herbert family (earls of Powis)|author=Evan David Jones|year=1959|access-date=30 November 2021}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet{{cite web |last1=Thorne |first1=R.G. |title=John Owen (1776-1861) of Orielton, Pembrokeshire |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/owen-john-1776-861 |website=History of Parliament |access-date=27 March 2020}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=115}}{{cite book|author=William Stockdale|title=Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom|year=1833|page=86}}
- Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=292}}{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=305}}
- Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
- Bishop of St Asaph – William Carey{{DNB|wstitle=Carey, William (1769-1846)}}{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}
- Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=307}}{{cite book|title=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}{{cite book|title=The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3|author=George III (King of Great Britain)|publisher=University Press|year=1967|page=434}}{{cite web |title=Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas |url=https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA3174&pos=1 |website=The Royal Society |access-date=30 October 2020}}
Events
- 8 January - Sir Joseph Bailey is elected MP for Worcester.
- 19 February - In the United Kingdom general election, newly elected MPs in Wales include Wilson Jones at Denbigh Boroughs.{{cite book|author=Richard Bartholomew Mosse|title=The parliamentary guide, a concise biography of the members of both houses of parliament|url=https://archive.org/details/parliamentarygu00mossgoog|year=1837|pages=[https://archive.org/details/parliamentarygu00mossgoog/page/n206 184]}}
- March - At a public meeting in the King's Head Inn, Newport, plans for a floating dock are agreed.
- July - The Newport Dock Act receives the royal assent.{{cite book|title=Accounts and Papers of the House of Commons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=inRbAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA318|year=1846|publisher=Ordered to be printed|pages=318}}
- September - John Frost is one of the first councillors elected in Newport under the terms of the Municipal Reform Act.
- 1 December - John Owen, mayor of Newport, cuts the first sod as construction begins on Newport Docks.
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- The steam whistle, invented by Adrian Stephens two years earlier, is seen in operation at Dowlais ironworks and is adopted by the Liverpool and Manchester Railway shortly afterwards.{{cite book|author=Henry Evers|title=Steam and the Steam Engine: Land, Marine, and Locomotive|url=https://archive.org/details/steamandsteamen02evergoog|year=1878|publisher=W. Collins|pages=[https://archive.org/details/steamandsteamen02evergoog/page/n265 256]}}
- Adam Sedgwick names the Cambrian period in geology.{{cite journal|first1=R. I.|last1=Murchison|authorlink=Roderick Murchison|first2=A.|last2=Sedgwick|title=On the Silurian and Cambrian Systems|journal=Report of the meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science|year=1835|pages=59–61}}
Arts and literature
- The Royal Institution of South Wales is established as the Swansea Philosophical and Literary Society.
=New books=
- Y Fwyalchen (poetry anthology)
- Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis - The Lyvys of the Seyntys
=Music=
- Anglesey Musical Society holds its first festival.
- John Roberts (Alaw Elwy) plays the harp for Queen Adelaide at Winchester.
Births
- 5 April (in Trowbridge) – Solomon Andrews, entrepreneur (d. 1908)
- 10 May – John Jenkins, 1st Baron Glantawe, industrialist (d. 1913){{cite web|url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/John_Jones_Jenkins|title=John Jones Jenkins|website=Graces Guide|access-date=2 December 2021}}
- 14 July – John Roberts, politician (d. 1894)
- 7 August – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist (d. 1935)
- 29 August – Ivor Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne (d. 1914){{acad|id=GST852IB|name=Guest, Ivor Bertie}}
Deaths
- 3 March – Daniel Evans, Independent minister and author, 61{{cite DWB|id=s-EVAN-DAN-1774|title=Evans, Daniel(1774-1835), Congregational minister|author=John Dyfnallt Owen|year=1959|access-date=2 December 2021}}
- 1 May – Edward Jones, architect, 39Palmer A.N. 1888, op cit.; Piece 4131: Wrexham, Chester Street Chapel (Presbyterian), 1814-1837
- 13 May – John Nash, architect, 83
- 16 May – Felicia Hemans, poet, 41
- 4 June – William Owen Pughe, grammarian and lexicographer, 75{{cite DWB|id=s-PUGH-OWE-1759|title=Pughe, William Owen (1759–1835), lexicographer, grammarian, editor, antiquary, and poet|author=Griffith John Williams|year=1959|access-date=2 December 2021}}
- 23 November – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort, Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, 68{{cite book|author=Richard B. Mosse|title=The Parliamentary Guide: a concise history of the Members of both Houses|publisher=A. H. Baily & Co|year=1837|page=9}}
- 1 December – Robert Davies (Robin Ddu o'r Glyn), poet, 66
- 16 December – David Price, East India Company officer, 73{{ODNBweb|id=22746|title=Price, David}}
- 29 December – Richard Llwyd, poet, 83