1843 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1843 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Events

15 April – Death of William Howells, the notorious "Laleston poisoning" case. His sister and brother-in-law are later acquitted of his murder.
19 June – An attack on the Carmarthen workhouse is blamed on "Chartists and the rabble of the town". After the disturbances, the Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, George Rice Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, takes on the responsibility for administering order in the county.
22 June – The Times sends a special correspondent to South Wales to cover the Rebecca Riots.
25 August – "The Great Meeting" to seek political solutions to the problems underlying the Rebecca Riots is held on Mynydd Sylen in the Gwendraeth valley.
October – Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed to chair the commission of enquiry into the Rebecca Riots.
1 November – The foundation stone for the first Beaumaris Pier is laid.
22 December – John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr), one of the ringleaders of the Rebecca Riots is sentenced to transportation to Australia.
Pontardawe Tinplate Works established.
Llewelyn Lewellin becomes Dean of St David's.

Arts and literature

New books

Daniel Silvan Evans – Blodeu Ieuainc
Morris Williams (Nicander) – ''Y Flwyddyn Eglwysig''

Music

David Hughes (Cristiolus Môn) – Y Perorydd Cysegredig
John Orlando Parry – ''The Accomplished Young Lady''

Births

8 January – John Bryn Roberts, lawyer and politician
12 February – John Graham Chambers, sportsman who codified the Marquess of Queensberry rules
17 April – Richard John Lloyd Price, sportsman and squire of Rhiwlas
12 May – Thomas William Rhys Davids, founder of the Pali Text Society
21 May – John Hugh Jones, Roman Catholic priest, translator, and tutor
11 June – James Milo Griffith, sculptor
18 July – Sir Morgan Morgan, politician
4 August – Margaret Townsend Jenkins, social reformer and educator who worked in Chile and Canada
30 August – Cyril Flower, 1st Baron Battersea, MP for Brecon 1880–1885
12 September – William Morris, Baptist minister
17 September – Hugh Williams, historian
14 November – Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Unitarian minister in the United States
23 November – Daniel Lewis Lloyd, Bishop of Bangor
20 December – Frances Hoggan, first British woman to qualify as a doctor
date unknown – Peter Rees Jones, businessman

Deaths

31 January – William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament, 66?
26 March – Robert Richford Roberts, Welsh-descended Methodist leader in the United States, 64
27 March – Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny, 88
23 April – Sir Robert Vaughan, 2nd Baronet, landowner and politician, 75
19 May – Charles James Apperley, sports writer, 64?
18 December – Dic Aberdaron, polyglot, 62/63
date unknown – Mary Evans, first love of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 73?