- 1812 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1812 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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June 20 - Creation of The Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal and Tramroad Company.
*October 1 - Balloonist James Sadler flies over the north Wales coastline in an unsuccessful attempt to cross theIrish Sea .
*December 30 - A brig, the "Fortune", is wrecked on The Smalls,Pembrokeshire , with the loss of 11 lives.
*Rioting occurs atNefyn overenclosure s.
*Percy Bysshe Shelley stays at Nantgwyllt in the Elan Valley.
*Opening of:
**Brecon and Monmouthshire Canal between Newport and Brecon.
**Aberdare branch ofGlamorganshire Canal .Arts and literature
New books
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Felicia Hemans - "The Domestic Affections and Other Poems"
*Benjamin Millingchamp - "A Sermon preached at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, on Thursday, July 4th, 1811"
*"The New Flora Britannica" (with illustrations bySydenham Teak Edwards )Music
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Births
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January 6 - Catherine Glynne, future wife ofWilliam Gladstone (d. 1900)
*February 3 -Robert Elis (Cynddelw) , poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)
**April 3 -Henry Richard , pacifist politician (d. 1888)
*May 19 -Lady Charlotte Guest , translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)Deaths
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January 15 -Theophilus Jones , historian, 52
*March 13 -Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge , 77
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