1814 in Wales

1814 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*February - Anthony Bacon II sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.
*May - Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital is founded.
*Summer solstice - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg) declaims his poem "Heddwch" from the Logan Stone in the presence of the Gorsedd of Morgannwg, at the "second Assemblage"
*September 10 - The last recorded duel in Wales is fought at Newcastle Emlyn. Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling.
*Sydenham Teak Edwards founds the "Botanical Register".
*The Admiralty re-locates from Milford Haven to Paterchurch, resulting in the founding of Pembroke Dock.
*Lampeter is granted its town charter.
*Elijah Waring settles at Neath.

Arts and literature

New books

*Thomas William - "Perl Mewn Adfyd"

Music

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Births

*January - George Grant Francis, philanthropist (d. 1882)
*January 29 - Edward William Thomas, composer (d. 1892)
*March 5 - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
*June 16 - Robert Davies (Cyndeyrn), composer (d. 1867)
*"date unknown" - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)

Deaths

*March 12 - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?
*May 12 - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66
*June 21 - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71
*September 26 - Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr), literary figure, 73
*October 5 - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58
*November 16 - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70


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