1816 in Wales

1816 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1816 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*Pembroke Dock's first Royal Navy ships are launched: "HMS Ariadne" and "HMS Valorous".
*Taliesin Williams, son of Iolo Morganwg, opens a school at Merthyr Tydfil.

Arts and literature

New books

*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

*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 of University of Wales, Cardiff
*"date unknown" - Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)

Deaths

*April 23 - Thomas Johnes, landowner, 67
*June 29 - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher, 78


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