1818 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1818 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*March 31 - Joseph Tregelles Price takes out a new lease on Neath Abbey ironworks.
*June - In the United Kingdom general election:
**Samuel Homfray becomes MP for Stafford.
**John Jones of Ystrad fails to win Carmarthen.
**Berkeley Thomas Paget, MP for Anglesey, retires from Parliament.
**John Edwards becomes MP for Glamorganshire.
*August - John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), parson of Kerry, and Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, agree "to make an attempt to rekindle the bardic skill and ingenuity of the principality ... by holding eisteddfodau in different places in the four provinces".
*The Sirhowy ironworks, previously run by Richard Fothergill, is leased to Messrs. Harford of Ebbw Vale.
*Joseph Harris (Gomer) founds the periodical "Seren Gomer".
*John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) becomes landlord of the King's Head in Ludgate Street, London.
*Felicia Hemans separates from her husband.

Arts and literature

Awards

*Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) wins the chair at an eisteddfod in St Asaph.

New books

*Nicholas Carlisle - "A Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales"
*Charles Norris - "A Historical Account of Tenby"

Music

*Owen Williams - "Egwyddorion Canu"

Births

*January 11 - Daniel Silvan Evans, lexicographer (d. 1903)
*February 10 - David Lloyd Isaac, author (d. 1876)
*November 5 - Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis (d. 1891)
*November 29 - Richard Davies, MP (d. 1896)
*December 18 - David Davies (Llandinam), industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1890)
*"date unknown" - George Augustus Frederick Paget, politician

Deaths

*September 12 - John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd), poet, 76
*September 17 - Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey, father of Lady Charlotte Guest, 74