1810 in Wales

Updated on Oct 30, 2023

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

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)

Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

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.

Foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.

Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.

Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.

Hafod Copperworks established in the Lower Swansea valley.

Artist Charles Norris settles in Tenby.

Writer Thomas Love Peacock settles in Maentwrog.

The Merioneth Agricultural Society is founded.

Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough.

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

3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879)

12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)

15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (d. 1873)

19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (d. 1869)

24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (d. 1849 in India)

4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (d. 1862 in Utah)

Thomas Jones, librarian (d. 1875)

April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family

3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71

27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70

12 August - David Jones, Baptist minister, 74

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