1846 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1846 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 – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
- 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 ; Thomas Vowler Short
- Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall
Events
- 14 January - 35 men are killed in a mining accident at Risca.
- March - A speech by William Williams, MP for Coventry, on the subject of education and the Welsh language leads to the commissioning of a report.
- 27 June - Thomas Frankland Lewis is created a baronet.
- 1 August - Opening of the Aberdare railway.
- 3 August - Mary Cornelia Edwards of Plas Machynlleth marries George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry.
- October - New bridge over the River Towy at Llandeilo collapses under construction.
- date unknown
- *The new cast-iron Llandinam Bridge in Montgomeryshire is opened.
- *The rebuilt Beaumaris Pier is partially opened.
- *Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones becomes mission president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Wales, concentrating the church's efforts around Merthyr Tydfil, publishing the Welsh language monthly Prophwyd y Jubili and also the tract Hanes Saint y Dyddiau Diweddaf.
- *The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis.
Arts and literature
New books
- Griffith Edwards - Gwaith Prydyddawl
- Daniel Silvan Evans - Telynegion
- Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Heraldic Visitations of Wales and Part of the Marches between the years 1586 and 1613...
- William Morgan (Gwilym Gelli-deg) - ''Cerbyd Awen''
Music
- ''Y Salmydd Cenedlaethol''
Births
- 8 January - Henry Bracy, tenor
- 1 October - John Cadvan Davies, minister and poet
- 17 October - Mary Davies (Mair Eifion), poet
- 24 November - Tom Hurry Riches, steam locomotive engineer
- 6 December - James Charles, theologian
- 28 December - William Frost, harpist
- 3 August - Samuel M. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio
Deaths
- 9 March - William Hughes, composer, 88
- 28 March - Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion), poet, 53
- 26 June - Honoratus Leigh Thomas, surgeon, 77
- 29 July - John Owens, educational benefactor, 55
- 13 September – William Carey, Bishop of St Asaph, 76
- October - John Evans, surgeon and cartographer, 90
- 3 December - Daniel Jones, missionary, 33
- 5 December - Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet, politician, 86