This article is about the particular significance of the year 1855 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 2nd Marquess of Anglesey
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – John Lloyd Vaughan Watkins
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Sir Richard Williams-Bulkeley, 10th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Lloyd, Coedmore
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 1st Earl Cawdor
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Robert Myddelton Biddulph
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Capel Hanbury Leigh
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Charles Hanbury-Tracy, 1st Baron Sudeley
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – John Walsh, 1st Baron Ormathwaite
Bishop of Bangor – Christopher Bethell
Bishop of Llandaff – Alfred Ollivant
Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Vowler Short
Bishop of St Davids – Connop Thirlwall
Events
25 February – The steamship Morna is wrecked off North Bishop Rock, with the loss of 21 lives. 30 March – The Severn ferry from Chepstow sinks, and seven people drown. Construction of the first section of the Llanidloes and Newtown Railway begins.
Arts and literature
New books
John Jones (Talhaiarn) – Gwaith Talhaiarn, vol. 1
William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog) – Gweithiau Barddonol Gwilym Hiraethog
William Williams (Creuddynfab) – Y Barddoniadur
Music
Death of James Green of Bron y Garth, last of the traditional crwth players.
Births
11 February – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player (died 1889) 9 April – Jeremiah Jones, poet (died 1902) 16 August – William David Phillips, Wales international rugby player (died 1918) 11 December – David Thomas Ffrangcon Davies, singer (died 1918)