1816 in Wales

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Centuries: 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st Decades: 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1816 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)

Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

10 February - Pembroke Dock's first Royal Navy ships are launched: HMS Ariadne and HMS Valorous.

24 July - Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow (rebuilt in cast iron) is opened across the River Wye.

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.

Nantyglo Round Towers built.

Taliesin Williams, son of Iolo Morganwg, opens a school at Merthyr Tydfil.

New books

Jane Ellis - Cerddi (first published Welsh language book by a woman)

Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist

Ann Hatton - Chronicles of an Illustrious House

Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774

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)

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

date unknown - Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)

Deaths

23 April - Thomas Johnes, landowner, 67

18 June - Thomas Henry, apothecary, 81

29 June - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher, 78

10 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Shelley, 22 (suicide)

date unknown - David Jones, barrister ("the Welsh Freeholder"), c.51

References

1816 in Wales Wikipedia

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