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1817 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
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Decades:
  
1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1817 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • January - Riots break out in Amlwch over food prices.
  • 22 July - Windham Sadler succeeds in crossing the Irish Sea by hot air balloon, landing near Holyhead.
  • October John Gibson arrives in Rome to study sculpture with help from Antonio Canova.
  • 6 December - Joseph Tregelles Price advertises Neath Abbey ironworks for sale.
  • Lewis Weston Dillwyn retires from managing the Cambrian Pottery at Swansea.
  • Richard Fothergill retires from his role in managing the Tredegar ironworks with Samuel Homfray.
  • Joseph Harris (Gomer) launches the unsuccessful periodical, Greal y Bedyddwyr.
  • Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis drafts the report on the Poor Law which brings its abuses to the attention of the public.
  • Construction work commences on the first chapel in Tywyn.
  • Approximate date - Britain's longest tramroad tunnel is opened at Pwll du near Blaenavon. The Pwll Du Tunnel is more than a mile (2400 m) in length. Begun as a mineral adit, at this time it carries a horse-drawn double track plateway of approximately 2 ft (600 mm) gauge carrying material for Blaenavon Ironworks; next summer it will be incorporated in Thomas Hill's Tramroad, connecting to the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.

    • New books

  • Catherine Hutton - The Welsh Mountaineer
  • John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst

    • Music

  • 14 July - Robert Williams composes the famous hymn-tune Llanfair (formerly named Bethel).

    • Births

  • 3 March - Robert Thompson Crawshay, iron-master (died 1879)
  • 6 May - John Prichard, architect (d. 1886)
  • June - John Corbett, industrialist (died 1901)
  • 16 June - Charles Herbert James, politician (died 1890)
  • 16 August - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic (died 1870)
  • 17 September - Hugh Humphreys, publisher (died 1896)
  • 13 November - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (died 1885)
  • 17 December - Erasmus Jones, novelist (died 1909)
  • Thomas Thomas, chapel architect and minister (died 1888)

    • Deaths

  • 16 January - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal, 80
  • 27 March - Josiah Boydell, artist, 65
  • 17 July - William Williams (antiquary), author, 79
  • 31 July - Benjamin Hall, industrialist, 36
  • date unknown - David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford

    • References

    1817 in Wales Wikipedia
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