1844 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1844 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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.
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*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.

English watercolour landscape painter David Cox spends his first summer at Betws-y-Coed, which he will continue to do until 1856.