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1820 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
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Decades:
  
1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1820 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – George (until 29 January 1820) (became George IV)
  • Princess of Wales – Caroline of Brunswick (until 29 January 1820)

    • Events

  • 29 January – The Prince of Wales becomes King George IV on the death of King George III of the United Kingdom.
  • 14 April - At the completion of the United Kingdom general election:
  • Henry Paget, later Marquess of Anglesey, is elected as member for Anglesey.
  • Wyndham Lewis is elected for Cardiff.
  • Christopher Cole is re-elected for Glamorganshire.
  • The first "colliery school" in the South Wales coalfield is established at Hirwaun.
  • Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) founds a Welsh school at Gelli Felen.
  • Crawshay Bailey becomes a partner at Nant-y-glo ironworks with his brother, Joseph Bailey.
  • The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion is revived, having been in abeyance since 1787.
  • John Scandrett Harford meets Bishop Thomas Burgess and offers to donate the site of Lampeter Castle for the construction of St David's College.
  • Tondu Ironworks is built by Sir Robert Price.

    • New books

  • Felicia Hemans – The Sceptic
  • John Jones (Tegid) – Traethawd ar Gadwedigaeth yr Iaith Gymraeg
  • Robert Jones – Drych yr Amseroedd
  • William Probert - Y Gododdin (first English translation)

    • Music

  • Edward Jones – Hen Ganiadau Cymru

    • Births

  • 13 May - Robert Owen, theologian (d. 1902)
  • 21 May – Sir Thomas Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician and landowner (d. 1877)
  • 22 May - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1885)
  • 20 June – Thomas Essile Davies (Dewi Wyn o Essyllt), poet (d. 1891)
  • 5 September – Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd), minister and journalist (d. 1852)

    • Deaths

  • 20 January - Eliezer Williams, clergyman and genealogist, 75
  • 29 January – King George III of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales 1751–1760, 81
  • 16 June – Thomas Jones of Denbigh, Methodist preacher and writer, 64
  • 27 June – William Lort Mansel, bishop and academic, 67
  • 23 August – Edward Randles, harpist, 57
  • 28 August – Henry Mills, musician, 63

    • References

    1820 in Wales Wikipedia
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