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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1831 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – vacant
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 28 April–1 June – In the UK general election:
- Robert Fulke Greville is defeated in Pembrokeshire by Sir John Owen of Orielton.[1]
- Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn becomes MP for Flintshire.
- John Jones of Ystrad is injured in rioting during the election at Carmarthen, causing polling there to be postponed.[2]
- 3 June – The Merthyr Rising reaches its climax.[3]
- 5 August – Charles Darwin travels from Shrewsbury to Llangollen with his tutor, Rev Adam Sedgwick, to carry out geological studies. They remain in Wales for more than two weeks.[4]
- 17 August – The paddle steamer Rothsay Castle is wrecked at the eastern end of the Menai Strait with the loss of 93 lives.[5]
- August – John Jones of Ystrad holds the constituency of Carmarthen.
- 22 October – John Jones of Ystrad and Robert Fulke Greville fight a duel at Tafarnspite.
- Repeal of the slate tax.
- Port Talbot ironworks opens.
- William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) becomes a minister.
Arts and literature
New books
- John Evans (I. D. Ffraid) – Hanes yr Iddewon
New publications
Y Drysorfa a Calvinistic Methodist publication, restarts under the editorship of John Parry
Music
Births
- 13 January – William Hugh Evans, minister and author (d. 1909)
- May – Dewi Havhesp, poet (d. 1884)
- 3 May – Sir Walter Vaughan Morgan, Lord Mayor of London (d. 1916)
- 16 May – David E. Hughes, musician and professor of music (d. 1900)
- 21 July – Edward Lewis, Welsh-born New Zealand clergyman (d. 1913)
- 16 October – John Jones (Eos Bradwen), composer (d. 1899)
- 8 December
- William Dykins, poet (d. 1872)
- Edward Payson Evans, historian and linguist (d. 1917)
- 14 December – Griffith John, missionary (d. 1912)
- 20 December – William T. Davies, Governor of Pennsylvania (d. 1912)
- date unknown – William Davies (Gwilym Teilo), writer (d. 1892)
Deaths
- 7 January – Edward "Celtic" Davies, author, 74
- 17 April – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician, 54
- 8 June – Sarah Siddons, actress, 75
- 11 August – Cradock Glascott, Evangelical clergyman and associate of the Wesley brothers, 88
- 13 August – Dic Penderyn, labourer, 23 (executed)
References
- ^ "OWEN, Sir John, 1st bt. (1776-1861), of Orielton, Pemb". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ David Williams. "JONES, JOHN (1777-1842), 'of Ystrad', politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 February 2019.
- ^ David Egan (1 January 1987). People, Protest, and Politics: Case Studies in Nineteenth Century Wales. Gomer Press. ISBN 978-0-86383-350-2.
- ^ Lucas, Peter (1 January 2010). "The recovery of time past: Darwin at Barmouth on the eve of the Beagle". Darwin Online. Retrieved 21 January 2010.
- ^ Joseph Adshead (1834). A Circumstantial Narrative of the Wreck of the Rothsay Castle Steampacket: On Her Passage from Liverpool to Beaumaris, August 17, 1831 ... Hamilton, Adams, and Company. p. 169.