1812 in Wales

1812 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1812 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

*June 20 - Creation of The Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal and Tramroad Company.
*October 1 - Balloonist James Sadler flies over the north Wales coastline in an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Irish Sea.
*December 30 - A brig, the "Fortune", is wrecked on The Smalls, Pembrokeshire, with the loss of 11 lives.
*Rioting occurs at Nefyn over enclosures.
*Percy Bysshe Shelley stays at Nantgwyllt in the Elan Valley.
*Opening of:
**Brecon and Monmouthshire Canal between Newport and Brecon.
**Aberdare branch of Glamorganshire Canal.

Arts and literature

New books

*Felicia Hemans - "The Domestic Affections and Other Poems"
*Benjamin Millingchamp - "A Sermon preached at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, on Thursday, July 4th, 1811"
*"The New Flora Britannica" (with illustrations by Sydenham Teak Edwards)

Music

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Births

*January 6 - Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Gladstone (d. 1900)
*February 3 - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)
**April 3 - Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888)
*May 19 - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)

Deaths

*January 15 - Theophilus Jones, historian, 52
*March 13 - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, 77


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