1819 in Wales

Updated on Dec 07, 2024

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Centuries: 17th18th19th20th21st Decades: 1790s1800s1810s1820s1830s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1819 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)

Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

August - Thomas Telford begins construction of the Menai Suspension Bridge.

The embankment on Telford's Holyhead Road through the Nant Ffrancon Pass is completed.

The Welsh colony of Cardigan is established in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.

Construction of Gwrych Castle begins.

Scottish-born London India merchant John Christie purchases a substantial tract of the Great Forest of Brecknock from the Crown.

Approximate date - John Scandrett Harford and his brothers acquire the Peterwell estate at Lampeter

Major eisteddfodau are held at Carmarthen and Denbigh. The Gorsedd tradition (begun by Iolo Morganwg) becomes formally linked with the eisteddfod at Carmarthen.

William Owen Pughe - Coll Gwynfa (translation of Milton's Paradise Lost)

"From Greenland’s Icy Mountains", a hymn by Reginald Heber, is sung for the first time, at St Giles' Church, Wrexham.

4 November - Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (died 1894)

15 November - Arthur Wynn Williams, physician (died 1886)

9 December - John Roose Elias, writer (died 1881)

31 January - Thomas Bevan, missionary (born c.1796)

8 February - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanist, 51

25 June - John Abel, minister, 49

6 November - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales, 21

11 November - Moses Griffiths, artist, 72

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