1816 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1816 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire â Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â Thomas Johnes (until 23 April)[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford[2][11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[12][2][13]
- Bishop of Bangor â Henry Majendie[14][15]
- Bishop of Llandaff â Richard Watson (until 4 July)[16] Herbert Marsh (from 25 August)[17]
- Bishop of St Asaph â John Luxmoore[18][19][20]
- Bishop of St Davids â Thomas Burgess[20][21][22][23]
Events
- 10 February - Pembroke Dock's first Royal Navy ships are launched: HMS Ariadne and HMS Valorous.[24]
- 7 May - Hay Railway opens throughout.[25]
- 24 July - Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow (rebuilt in cast iron), is opened across the River Wye.[26]
- 9 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, takes a room at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea, and instructs the maid not to disturb her. The following day she is found dead, having taken a fatal dose of laudanum.[27]
- Nantyglo Round Towers built.[28]
- Taliesin Williams, son of Iolo Morganwg, opens a school at Merthyr Tydfil.
Arts and literature
New books
English language
- Ann Hatton - Chronicles of an Illustrious House
- Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774
Welsh language
- Jane Ellis - Cerddi (first published Welsh language book by a woman)[29]
- Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist
Music
- John Ellis - Mawl yr Arglwydd (collection of hymns)[30]
Births
- 11 January - Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
- 7 March - Huw Derfel Hughes, poet and historian (d. 1890)
- 3 June - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876)[31]
- 11 June - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
- 16 August - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff[32]
- date unknown
- Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
- Edward Meredith Price, composer (d. 1898)[33]
Deaths
- 23 April - Thomas Johnes, landowner and politician, 67[34]
- 18 June - Thomas Henry, apothecary, 81
- 29 June - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher, 78[35]
- 4 July - Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, 78[36]
- 17 July - John Lewis, missionary, about 24 (fever)[37]
- 10 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Shelley, 22 (committed suicide at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea)[38]
- date unknown
- Benjamin Davies, first Baptist minister at Haverfordwest (age unknown)[39]
- David Jones, barrister ("the Welsh Freeholder"), c.51[40]