- 1819 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1819 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
*Princess of Wales -Caroline of Brunswick Events
*August -
Thomas Telford begins construction of theMenai Suspension Bridge .
*The Welsh colony of Cardigan is established in York County,New Brunswick ,Canada .
*TheGorsedd tradition (begun byIolo Morganwg ) becomes formally linked with theeisteddfod .
*Construction ofGwrych Castle begins.Arts and literature
*Major eisteddfodau are held at Carmarthen and Denbigh.
New books
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William Owen Pughe - "Coll Gwynfa" (translation of Milton's "Paradise Lost")Music
*"From Greenland’s Icy Mountains", a hymn by
Reginald Heber , is sung for the first time, atSt Giles' Church, Wrexham .Births
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November 4 -Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (d. 1894)
*November 15 -Arthur Wynn Williams , physician (d. 1886)
*December 9 -John Roose Elias , writer (d. 1881)Deaths
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January 31 -Thomas Bevan , missionary (b.c.1796)
*February 8 -Sydenham Teak Edwards , botanist, 51
*June 25 - John Abel, minister, 49
*November 6 -Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales , daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales, 21
*November 11 -Moses Griffiths , artist, 72
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