1810 in Wales

1810 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*April 14 - James Henry Cotton marries Mary Anne, daughter of Bishop Majendie.
*September 27 - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.
*Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough.
*Launch of the "Carmarthen Journal", the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.
*Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
*Artist Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
*The Merioneth Agricultural Society is founded.

Arts and literature

New books

*"The Beauties of England and Wales", vol. XI
*"Corff y Gainc" (anthology)
*Dafydd Ddu Eryri - "Corph y Gaingc"
*Richard Fenton - "Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire"
*Ann Hatton - "Cambrian Pictures"

Music

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Births

*January 3 - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879)
*January 12 - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)
*January 15 - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (d. 1873)
*January 19 - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (d. 1869)
*January 24 - Thomas Jones, missionary (d. 1849)

Deaths

*April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family
*April 3 - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71
*June 27 - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70


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