1819 in Wales

1819 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1819 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*August - Thomas Telford begins construction of the Menai Suspension Bridge.
*The Welsh colony of Cardigan is established in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.
*The Gorsedd tradition (begun by Iolo Morganwg) becomes formally linked with the eisteddfod.
*Construction of Gwrych Castle begins.

Arts and literature

*Major eisteddfodau are held at Carmarthen and Denbigh.

New books

*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, at St Giles' Church, Wrexham.

Births

*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

*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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