1853 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1853 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

23 January — Six members of the Rhyl lifeboat crew are drowned when the boat overturns.
11 November — Approval is given for the opening of the Vale of Neath Railway line from Gelli Tarw to Merthyr Tydfil, which had been postponed on safety grounds.
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*David Williams (Alaw Goch) opens a new colliery at Cwmdare.
*Blaenavon Ironworks adopts the hot blast process.
*John Williams (Ab Ithel) quarrels with his friend and co-editor Harry Longueville Jones and resigns the editorship of Archaeologia Cambrensis.
*Two Welsh translations of Uncle Tom's Cabin are published: Caban F'Ewyrth Twm by Hugh Williams (Cadfan) and Crynodeb o Gaban ‘Newyrth Tom by Thomas Levi under the pen-name Y Lefiad.
*William Roberts (Nefydd) is appointed South Wales agent for the British and Foreign Schools Society.
*Hugh Owen becomes Chief Clerk of the Poor Law Commission.
*Robert Fulke Greville the younger returns to his family estate at Milford Haven.

William Thomas (Islwyn) wins his first major eisteddfod prize at Cefn-Coed-y-Cymer.

B. B. Woodward — The History of Wales
W. Downing Evans — The Gwyddonwyson Wreath
John Mills (Ieuan Glan Alarch) — British Jews
Richard Williams Morgan — Raymonde de Monthault, The Lord Marcher
Thomas Rowland — Welsh Grammar
William Spurrell — English-Welsh Dictionary
Isaac Williams — Sermons on the Epistles and Gospels for the Sundays and Holy Days
Benjamin Thomas Williams — ''Desirableness of a University for Wales''