- 1816 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1816 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
*Princess of Wales -Caroline of Brunswick Events
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Pembroke Dock 's firstRoyal Navy ships are launched: "HMS Ariadne" and "HMS Valorous".
*Taliesin Williams , son ofIolo Morganwg , opens a school atMerthyr Tydfil .Arts and literature
New books
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Joseph Harris (Gomer) - "Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist"
*Ann Hatton - "Chronicles of an Illustrious House"
*Samuel Johnson - "A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774"Music
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Births
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January 11 -Henry Robertson , Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
*March 7 -Huw Derfel Hughes , poet and historian (d. 1890)
*June 3 -John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech , politician (d. 1876)
*June 11 -Thomas William Davids , ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
*August 16 -Charles John Vaughan , dean of Llandaff and co-founder ofUniversity of Wales, Cardiff
*"date unknown" -Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)Deaths
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April 23 -Thomas Johnes , landowner, 67
*June 29 - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher, 78
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