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See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1836 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year1836 toWales andits people.

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey –Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Penry Williams^[5][6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire –Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire –William Edward Powell^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire –George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire –Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire –Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan –John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire –Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet^[10]
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh^[11]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire –Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[12]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire –Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet^[13]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire –George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney^[14][2][15]

• Bishop of Bangor –Christopher Bethell^[16][17]
• Bishop of Llandaff –Edward Copleston^[18]
• Bishop of St Asaph –William Carey^[19][20][18]
• Bishop of St Davids –John Jenkinson^{[18][21][22][23]}

• 20 April – Opening of theFfestiniog Railway, the firstnarrow-gauge railway in the world.^[24]
• 21 June – An Act of Parliament is passed, allowing the construction of theTaff Vale Railway.^[25]
• June –Crawshay Bailey buys theAberaman estate from the family ofAnthony Bacon at auction.^[26]
• 9 November –John Frost is elected Mayor ofNewport.^[27]
• date unknown
  • The final known duel in Wales takes place, fought with pistols at Gumfreston Hall in Pembrokeshire, between MPSir John Owen and former Tenby mayor William Richards. Richards is badly wounded.^[28]
  • Humphrey Gwalchmai launches the periodicalYr Athraw.^[29]
  • The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites is established in Wrexham by Thomas Robert Jones, it is Wales' firstfriendly society.^[30]

• 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

• Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) -Hanes Cymru a Chenedl y Cymry o'r Cynoesoedd hyd at Farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 1^[31]
• John Williams (Ab Ithel) -Eglwys Loegr yn Anymddibynol ar Eglwys Rhufain^[32]

• John David Edwards -Original Sacred Music

• 30 January –Lewis Jones, one of the founders of the Welsh settlement inPatagonia (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)^[33]
• 20 October –Daniel Owen, novelist (d.1895)^[34]
• 9 November –Isaac Foulkes, newspaper proprietor (d.1904)
• 9 November –Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen, politician (d.1905)

• 11 August -William Williams (Gwilym Twrog), poet, 67^[35]
• 24 August SirChristopher Cole, Royal Navy officer and politician, 66^[36]
• 22 November -Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and writer, 73^[37]
• 27 December - Edward Jones, Maes y Plwm, hymn-writer, 75^[38]

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• Years of the 19th century in Wales
• 1836 in Europe
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