1830 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1830 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*February 23 - William Carey becomes Bishop of St Asaph.
*April 23 - John Montgomery Traherne marries Charlotte Louisa Talbot, daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam.
*The Penydarren works at Merthyr Tydfil produce the rails for the world's first steam railway.
*The Plymouth ironworks produces over 12,000 tons of bar-iron, compared with 7,941 tons ten years earlier.
*Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed Treasurer of the Navy by the Duke of Wellington.
*The "Cambrian Quarterly Magazine" is founded.

Arts and literature

New books

*Ellis Evans - "Anogaeth i Athrawon ac Athrawesau ein Hysgolion Sabothol"
*Felicia Hemans - "Songs of the Affections"
*Benjamin Jones (PA Môn) - "Athrawiaeth Bedydd" (1830)
*Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - "Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court"

Music

*Thomas Griffiths (Tau Gimel) - "Casgliad o Hymnau"

Births

*January 23 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (d. 1861)
*April 22 - Sarah Emily Davies, educator (d. 1921)
*May - Richard Davies (Tafolog), poet and critic (d. 1904)
*May 25 - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (d. 1877)

Deaths

*June 26 - King George IV of the United Kingdom, formerly the second longest-serving Prince of Wales (1762-1820)