1843 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1843 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1843 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

15 April — Death of William Howells, the notorious "Laleston poisoning" case. His sister and brother-in-law are later acquitted of his murder.
June — After disturbances in Carmarthenshire, George Rice Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, takes on the responsibility for administering order in the county.
22 June — The Times sends a special correspondent to South Wales to cover the Rebecca Riots.
25 August — "The Great Meeting" (Y Cyfarfod Mawr) to seek political solutions to the problems underlying the Rebecca Riots is held on Mynydd Sylen in the Gwendraeth valley.
1 November — First Beaumaris Pier opened.
22 December — John Jones (Shoni Sguborfawr), one of the ringleaders of the Rebecca Riots is sentenced to transportation to Australia.
Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed to chair the commission of enquiry into the Rebecca Riots.
Pontardawe Tinplate Works established.
Llewelyn Lewellin becomes Dean of St David's.

12 February — John Graham Chambers, sportsman who codified the Marquess of Queensberry rules (died 1883)
17 April — Richard John Lloyd Price, sportsman and squire of Rhiwlas (died 1923)
12 May — Thomas William Rhys Davids, founder of the Pali Text Society (died 1922)
11 June — James Milo Griffith, sculptor (died 1897)
20 December — Frances Hoggan, first British woman to qualify as a doctor (died 1927)

31 January — William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament, 66?
26 March — Robert Richford Roberts, Welsh-descended Methodist leader in the United States, 64
27 March — Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny, 88
19 May — Charles James Apperley ("Nimrod"), sports writer, 64?
date unknown — Mary Evans, first love of Samuel Taylor Coleridge