1815 in Wales

1815 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1815 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*March 28 - Opening of the British School for boys at Newport.
*May 23 - John Luxmore replaces William Cleaver as Bishop of St Asaph.
*June 18 - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, famously loses a leg at the Battle of Waterloo. General Thomas Picton is killed in the same battle.
*Britain's longest tramway tunnel is built at Blaenavon, just over one mile in length.
*Admiral Thomas Foley is knighted.

Arts and literature

New books

*Walter Davies - "General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of South Wales"
*Richard Fenton - "Memoirs of an Old Wig"
*David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - "Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl"

Music

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Births

*January 24 - Thomas Gee, publisher (d. 1898)
*April 16 - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (d. 1895)
*May - William Lucas Collins, author (d. 1887)
*November 21 - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (d. 1859)
*December 13 - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (d. 1885)

Deaths

*March 5 - Sir Stephen Richard Glynne, 8th Baronet, 34
*June 18 - Thomas Picton, soldier, 56


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