1849 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1849 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

2 January – Completion of both tubes of Robert Stephenson's Conwy Railway Bridge.
26 February – Halkyn-born Mormon missionary Dan Jones embarks with 249 Welsh converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bound for Salt Lake City from Liverpool.
13 May – A case of cholera is recorded in Cardiff, the beginning of an outbreak that spreads to Merthyr, Dowlais and Aberdare, and kills 800 people.
20 June – First tube of Robert Stephenson's Britannia Bridge is floated into position on the Menai Strait.
10 August – Underground explosion at Lletty Shenkin colliery, Cwmbach, kills 52.
1 November – Alfred Ollivant becomes Bishop of Llandaff.
13 December – Foundation stone of Llandovery College is laid.
A temperance festival is held at Carmarthen.

Anne Beale – Traits and Stories of the Welsh Peasantry
Lady Charlotte Guest concludes publication of her translation into English of the Mabinogion
John Lloyd – The English Country Gentleman
Samuel Lewis – Topographical Dictionary of Wales
Thomas Stephens – ''The Literature of the Kymry''