This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.
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 – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster 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 Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall
Events 1 January - 11 or 12 men are killed in a mining accident at Dinas Middle Colliery, Rhondda. 14 February - 40 men are killed when the Cleddau floods the Garden Pit coal-mine at Landshipping, Pembrokeshire. 8 March - John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr) embarks on the Blundell for transportation to Norfolk Island, his sentence for shooting at a man during the Rebecca Riots. 13 May - 7 or 8 men are killed in a mining accident at Broadmoor, Loveston, Pembrokeshire. 3 December - 6 men are killed in a mining accident at Fforest Level, Dinas, Rhondda. 31 December - David Williams takes out a lease on a mine at Cwmbach, in partnership with Lewis Lewis (of Cefn Coed. date unknown A prospectus is issued to potential investors in a railway to be built through south Wales from a junction with the Great Western Railway at Standish in Gloucestershire. Owen Owen Roberts is instrumental in setting up the first hospital for Caernarvonshire and Anglesey, at Bangor.
Arts and literature New books Hugh Derfel Hughes - Blodau'r Gân David Owen (Brutus) - Eliasia
Music Rowland Prichard - Cyfaill y Cantorion (The Singer's Friend) Maria Jane Williams - Ancient National Airs of Gwent and Morgannwg
Visual arts English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.
Sport Denbigh Cricket Club is founded.Denbigh Cricket Club website. Accessed 21 March 2013
Births 1 January - Robert Clayton, cricketer (died 1901) 7 March - Watkin Hezekiah Williams, poet and schoolmaster (died 1905) 28 April - Thomas Jones (Tudno), poet (died 1895) June - John Roland Phillips, historian (died 1887) 28 July - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Welsh-descended poet (died 1889)Norman White, "Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–1889)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. 3 August - Herbert Armitage James, clergyman and schoolmaster (died 1931) 1 December - Alexandra of Denmark, Princess of Wales 1901-1910 (died 1925)
Deaths 18 January - Azariah Shadrach, minister and author, 69 7 April - Morgan Lewis, Welsh-descended American politician, 89 8 November - Iltid Nicholl, lawyer, 67/68"Iltid Nicholl, Esq.", The Gentleman's Magazine, NS, vol. 23 (January–June 1845), p. 316. 23 November - Thomas William, hymn-writer, 83
See also 1844 in Ireland
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