1. Incumbents

2. Events

3. Arts and literature
    New books  Music 

4. Births

5. Deaths

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1836 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• April - Completion of the Ffestiniog Railway, the first narrow-gauge railway in the world.
• 10 May – 21 men are killed in a mining accident at Plas-yr-Argoed, Mold, Flintshire.
• 21 June - An Act of Parliament is passed, allowing the construction of the Taff Vale Railway.
• Crawshay Bailey buys the Aberaman estate from the family of Anthony Bacon.
• Humphrey Gwalchmai launches the periodical Yr Athraw.
• The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites is established in Wrexham by Thomas Robert Jones, it is Wales' first friendly society.
• The final known duel takes place in Wales, between MP Sir John Owen and former Tenby mayor William Richards. Richards is badly wounded.

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) - Hanes Cymru a Chenedl y Cymry o'r Cynoesoedd hyd at Farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 1
• Rice Rees - An Essay on the Welsh Saints
• Thomas Roscoe - Wanderings and Excursions in North Wales
• Samuel Prideaux Tregelles - Passages in the Old Testament connected with the Revelation
• John Williams (Ab Ithel) - Eglwys Loegr yn Anymddibynol ar Eglwys Rhufain

Music

• John David Edwards - Original Sacred Music

Births

• 30 January – Lewis Jones, one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1904)
• 15 March - Griffith Jones (Glan Menai), teacher and author (d. 1906)
• 1 April - John Owen, balladeer (d. 1915)
• 26 May - Sir John Dillwyn-Llewellyn, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1927)
• 5 July - Evan Herber Evans, Nonconformist leader (d. 1896)
• 6 October - Allen Raine, novelist (d. 1908)
• 20 October - Daniel Owen, novelist (d. 1895)
• 9 November – Isaac Foulkes, newspaper proprietor (d. 1904)
• 9 November – Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen, politician (d. 1905)

Deaths

• 11 August - William Williams (Gwilym Twrog), poet, 67
• 24 August Sir Christopher Cole, Royal Navy officer and politician
• 22 November - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and writer, 73

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