1841 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (from December 8)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• February 20 - The Governor Fenner, carrying emigrants to America, sinks off Holyhead with the loss of 123 lives.
• March 9 - The first known photograph is taken in Wales, of Margam Castle by Calvert Jones.
• August 19 - In the United Kingdom general election, William Edwards stands as a Chartist candidate in Monmouth Boroughs and becomes the only Parliamentary candidate in Wales, ever, not to win a single vote.
• The Taff Vale Railway is extended to Merthyr Tydfil
• Founding of Bala-Bangor Congregational College.
• Poor Law Amendment Act is passed, largely thanks to the efforts of Sir George Cornewall Lewis.
• Mordecai Jones opens a brewery at Brecon.
• The Brymbo ironworks are bought out of Chancery after a long period of litigation and reopened by a limited company.

Arts and literature

New books

• David Owen (Brutus) - Gweithrediadau yr Eglwys Sefydledig
• Welsh Book of Common Prayer (new edition)

Music

Births

• January 28 - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer (died 1904)
• February 14
• Sir John Gibson, journalist (died 1915)
• William Reginald Herbert, horseman (died 1929)
• April 23 - Henry Hughes, minister and historian (died 1924)
• May 21 - Joseph Parry, composer (died 1903)
• November 9 - Edward Albert, Prince of Wales (died 1910)

Deaths

• January 17 - David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet, 56
• May 12 - Joseph Tudor Hughes, harpist, 13 (drowning)
• June 8 - John Elias, preacher, 67
• December 4 - David Daniel Davis, physician, 64