1813 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1813 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*January - Sir Joseph Bailey sells his 25% share in Cyfarthfa ironworks for £20,000.
*April - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) moves to Crickhowell to take over several parishes in the vicinity.
*November - Sir Jeremiah Homfray is forced to sell his house at Cwm Rhondda to settle his debts.
*Anthony Hill and his two brothers go into partnership at the Plymouth ironworks.
*The "Branwen ferch Llŷr" sepulchral urn is discovered on the banks of the river Alaw in Anglesey (later placed in the British Museum by Richard Llwyd).
*The first permanent military barracks in Wales are opened at Brecon.
*An Independent minister, David Davies, is forced to leave his teaching post at Carmarthen Academy after charges of "immorality" are made against him.
*David Daniel Davis is appointed a physician at Queen Charlotte's Hospital in London.
*Charles James Apperley becomes agent for his brother-in-law's estates in Caernarvonshire, taking up residence at Tŷ Gwyn, Llanbeblig.
*Diana Barham, Baroness Barham, settles in Gower.
*Thomas Charles of Bala publishes his "rules" for the conduct of Sunday schools.
*Richard Parry Price, heir to the Puleston estates, is created a baronet.
*Elijah Waring founds a new periodical, "The Cambrian Visitor: a Monthly Miscellany", which fails after eight months.

Arts and literature

New books

*Hugh Davies - "Welsh Botanology … A Systematic Catalogue of the Native Plants of Anglesey, in Latin, English, and Welsh"
*Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain) - "General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of North Wales"
*William Owen - "Lloffion o Faes Boaz"
*William Williams (Gwilym Peris) - "Awengerdd Peris"

Music

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Births

*January 30 - Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, Biblical scholar (d. 1875)
*May 2 - Mordecai Jones, industrialist (d. 1880)
*June 30 - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895)
*August 1 - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873)
*September 12 - Daniel Jones, missionary (d. 1846)
*October 10 - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
*"date unknown" - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)

Deaths

*March 23 - Princess Augusta Frederika of Wales, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and mother of Caroline, the Princess of Wales (b. 1737)
*April 17 - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer
*"date unknown" - Jane Cave, poet (b. 1754)