Events
- 27 February — A paddle steamer, Nimrod, is wrecked off St David's Head, and 45 people are killed.
- 7 March — HMS Howe, the Royal Navy’s last, largest and fastest wooden first-rate three-decker ship of the line, is launched at Pembroke Dockyard but never completed for sea service.
- 3 August — Consecration of Marble Church, Bodelwyddan.
- 1 December — The sixth underground explosion in the Risca Black Vein Pit at Crosskeys in the Sirhowy Valley of Monmouthshire kills 142 coal miners.
- Opening of the Gwili Valley railway.
- A statue of Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey is added to the column built in his honour by Thomas Harrison earlier in the century.
- Four gun batteries are installed on Flat Holm.
- Discovery of Gwynfynydd Gold Mine gold mine at Dolgellau.
- approx. date — Llanfairpwllgwyngyll on Anglesey adopts the long form of its name.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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