1836 in Wales

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Incumbents

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.

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

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)

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