1817 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1817 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*January - Riots break out in Amlwch over food prices.
*July 22 - Windham Sadler succeeds in crossing the Irish Sea by hot air balloon, landing near Holyhead.
*October John Gibson arrives in Rome to study sculpture with help from Antonio Canova.
*December 6 - Joseph Tregelles Price advertises Neath Abbey ironworks for sale.
*Lewis Weston Dillwyn retires from managing the Cambrian Pottery at Swansea.
*Richard Fothergill retires from his role in managing the Tredegar ironworks with Samuel Homfray.
*Joseph Harris (Gomer) launches the unsuccessful periodical, "Greal y Bedyddwyr".
*Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis drafts the report on the Poor Law which brings its abuses to the attention of the public.

Arts and literature

New books

*John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - "Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst"

Music

*July 14 - Robert Williams - "Llanfair" (hymn tune, formerly named "Bethel")

Births

*March 3 - Robert Thompson Crawshay, iron-master (d. 1879)
*May 6 - John Prichard, architect (d. 1886)
*June 16 - Charles Herbert James, politician (d. 1890)
*August 16 - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic (d. 1870)
*September 17 - Hugh Humphreys, publisher (d. 1896)
*November 1 - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (d. 1885)
*December 17 - Erasmus Jones, novelist (d. 1909)

Deaths

*January 16 - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal, 80
*March 27 - Josiah Boydell, artist, 65
*July 17 - William Williams of Llandygli, author, 79
*July 31 - Benjamin Hall, industrialist, 36
*"date unknown" - David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford