1851 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1851 to Wales and its people.
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[edit] Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Princess of Wales - vacant
[edit] Events
- September 24 - Vale of Neath Railway opens from Neath to Aberdare.
- August - William Bulkeley Hughes hosts a banquet at Bangor for Robert Stephenson.
- Richard Fothergill III is prosecuted for running a "truck shop" at Aberdare.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New books
- John Blackwell (Alun) - Ceinion Alun (posthumously published)
- Richard Williams Morgan - A Tragedy of Powys Castle
[edit] Music
- Thomas Jones (Gogrynwr) - Gweddi Habacuc (cantata)
[edit] Births
- February 8 - Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet (d. 1933)
- March 24 - Robert Ambrose Jones (Emrys ap Iwan) (d. 1906)
- June 15 - Ernest Howard Griffiths, physicist (d. 1932)
- July 8 - Sir Arthur Evans, archaeologist (d. 1941)
- July 12 - Elizabeth Phillips Hughes, promoter of women's education (died 1925)
- December 27 - Percy Gilchrist, industrialist
[edit] Deaths
- April 6 - William Morgan Kinsey, travel writer, 62?
- June 30 - Thomas Phillips, founder of Llandovery College, 80
