1836 in Wales

Incumbents

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

  Events

• 20 April – Opening of the Ffestiniog Railway, the first narrow-gauge railway in the world.
• 21 June – An Act of Parliament is passed, allowing the construction of the Taff Vale Railway.
• June – Crawshay Bailey buys the Aberaman estate from the family of Anthony Bacon at auction.
• date unknown
• *The final known duel in Wales takes place, fought with pistols at Gumfreston Hall in Pembrokeshire, between MP Sir John Owen and former Tenby mayor William Richards. Richards is badly wounded.
• *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.

  Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Price - 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 - 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
• 15 March - Griffith Jones, teacher and author
• 1 April - John Owen, balladeer
• 26 May - Sir John Dillwyn-Llewellyn, 1st Baronet, politician
• 5 July - Evan Herber Evans, Nonconformist leader
• 6 October - Allen Raine, novelist
• 20 October - Daniel Owen, novelist
• 9 November – Isaac Foulkes, newspaper proprietor
• 9 November – Arthur Charles Humphreys-Owen, politician

  Deaths

• 11 August - William Williams, poet, 67
• 24 August Sir Christopher Cole, Royal Navy officer and politician, 66
• 22 November - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and writer, 73
• 27 December - Edward Jones, Maes y Plwm, hymn-writer, 75