- 1828 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1828 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"Events
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Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex , visits the eisteddfod atDenbigh , making it the first to receive a royal visit.
*David Owen (Brutus) becomes editor of the periodical "Lleuad yr Oes" at Aberystwyth.
*Welsh architect John Nash createsMarble Arch in London.Arts and literature
New books
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Ellis Evans - "Unoliaeth a Gweledigaeth yr Eglwys, sef, Llythyr Cymanfa Cefn Mawr"
*Thomas Prichard - "The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti"
* David Saunders (Dafydd Glan Teifi) - "Awdl ar Fordaith yr Apostol Paul"
* John Thomas - "Telyn y Cantorion"
*John Walters - "An English and Welsh Dictionary"
*Thomas Wiliam - "Cwyn yr Unig"Music
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William Owen (Gwilym Ddu Glan Hafren) - "Y Caniedydd Crefyddol" (collection ofhymn tune s)Births
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January 30 -John David Jenkins , philanthropist (d. 1876)
*March 13 -Thomas Morgan Thomas , missionary (d. 1884)
*September 23 -Charles James Watkin Williams , politician (d. 1884)
*December 13 -David Lewis Wooding , genealogist (d. 1891)
* "date unknown" -John Richard Hughes , evangelist (d. 1893)Deaths
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February 19 -Thomas Jones (Y Bardd Cloff) , 59
*March 29 -Griffith Rowlands , surgeon, 65
*May 12 -Thomas Assheton Smith I , industrialist, 75
* September -William Madocks , landowner, 55
* "date unknown" -Edward Charles (Siamas Gwynedd), writer, 70?
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