1854 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant

  Events

• Late August Third cholera pandemic in Cardiff.
• 31 October — David Davies receives a conditional pardon for his role in the Rebecca Riots.
• 5 November — At the Battle of Inkerman, Hugh Rowlands carries out the actions that lead to his becoming the first Welshman to win the Victoria Cross.
• 11 November — In Australia, Welsh-born John Basson Humffray is elected the first president of the Ballarat Reform League.
• Betsi Cadwaladr volunteers to serve as a nurse in the Crimean War.
• Love Jones-Parry is High Sheriff of Caernarvonshire.
• The Telegraphic Despatch is published in Swansea, the first newspaper in Wales to come out more than once a week.
• A penny newspaper, the Herald Cymraeg, is founded at Caernarfon, with James Evans as editor.
• John Williams becomes editor of the Cambrian Journal.

  Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Thomas Prichard — The Heroines of Welsh History
• Samuel Prideaux Tregelles — Account of the Printed Text of the New Testament

  Welsh language

• John Edwards — Llais o'r Llwyn: sef Barddoniaeth, ar Amryfal Destynau
• Samuel Evans — Y Gomerydd
• Owen Wynne Jones — Fy Oriau Hamddenol
• William Thomas — Barddoniaeth

  Music

• David Richards — Y Blwch Cerddorol

  Births

• 1 January — Peter Morris, baseball player
• 8 April — Robert Arthur Williams, clergyman and poet
• 17 April — Sir John Eldon Bankes, judge
• 30 April — William Critchlow Harris, Welsh-Canadian architect
• 10 July — John Lloyd Williams, botanist and composer
• 22 September — John Fox Tallis, mining engineer
• 16 December — J. D. Rees, colonial administrator

  Deaths

• 14 January — Charles Rodney Morgan, politician, 25
• 3 April — Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn, politician, 85
• 10 April — William Edward Powell, politician, 66
• 29 April — Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, soldier and politician, 85
• 24 May — John Rowlands of Y Llys, alleged father of Sir Henry Morton Stanley, 39
• 12 November — Charles Kemble, actor, 79
• 28 December — Rowland Williams, clergyman and writer, 75