1812 in Wales

Updated on Nov 10, 2023

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1812 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)

Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

20 June - Creation of The Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal and Tramroad Company.

Summer - Percy Bysshe Shelley stays at Nantgwyllt in the Elan Valley with his wife Harriet.

September - Rioting occurs at Nefyn over enclosures.

17 September - The celebration of the completion of the embankment, later known as the 'Cob' in Porthmadog

30 December - A brig, the Fortune, is wrecked on The Smalls, Pembrokeshire, with the loss of 11 lives.

1 October - Balloonist James Sadler flies over the north Wales coastline in an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Irish Sea.

Opening of:

Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal between Newport and Brecon.

Aberdare branch of Glamorganshire Canal.

Felicia Hemans - The Domestic Affections and Other Poems

Lewis Hopkin - Y Fêl Gafod

Hugh Jones - Arwyrain Amaethyddiaeth

Benjamin Millingchamp - A Sermon preached at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, on Thursday, July 4, 1811

The New Flora Britannica (with illustrations by Sydenham Teak Edwards)

Owen Dafydd - Ballad of the Brynmorgan Explosion

6 January - Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Ewart Gladstone (d. 1900)

3 February - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)

3 April - Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888)

19 May - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)

15 January - Theophilus Jones, historian, 52

13 March - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, 77

May - Thomas Owen, clergyman and translator, 62

27 November (bur.) - Jane Cave, poet, c. 58

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