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1814 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
  • Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

    • Events

  • 1 January - The first weekly newspaper in Welsh is published, when Seren Gomer is founded by Joseph Harris (Gomer), a Baptist minister in Swansea.
  • February - Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.
  • May - Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital is founded.
  • Summer solstice - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg) declaims his poem "Heddwch" from the Logan Stone in the presence of the Gorsedd of Morgannwg, at the "second Assemblage"
  • 10 September - The last recorded fatal duel in Wales is fought at Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn. Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling.
  • Sydenham Edwards founds the The Botanical Register.
  • The Admiralty re-locates from Milford Haven to Paterchurch, resulting in the founding of Pembroke Dock.
  • Lampeter is granted its town charter.
  • Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.

    • New books

  • Thomas William - Perl Mewn Adfyd

    • Births

  • January - George Grant Francis, philanthropist (d. 1882)
  • 29 January - Edward William Thomas, composer (d. 1892)
  • 5 March - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
  • 16 June - Robert Davies (Cyndeyrn), composer (d. 1867)
  • date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)

    • Deaths

  • 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?
  • 12 May - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66
  • 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71
  • 26 September - Owen Jones, antiquary and founder of the Gwyneddigion Society, 73
  • 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58
  • 16 November - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70

    • References

    1814 in Wales Wikipedia
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