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1822 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 1822 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - vacant
  • Princess of Wales - vacant

    • Events

  • April - Launch of the Chester Cymmrodorion Society.
  • 13 June - William Lloyd climbs Boorendo in the Himalayas.
  • 12 August - St David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) is founded by Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's.
  • Beginning of "Rhyfel y Sais Bach", a dispute over enclosures in Pembrokeshire.
  • Horse-drawn trams begin a passenger service between Tredegar and Newport.
  • Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet, establishes a private printing press in Broadway Tower on his estate at Middle Hill in Worcestershire.

    • New books

  • John Hughes - An Essay on the Ancient and Present State of the Welsh Language
  • William Owen Pughe - Hu Gadarn
  • John Montgomery Traherne - Lists of Knights of the Shire of Glamorgan
  • Y Cymmrodor (first, unnumbered volume)

    • Music

  • Stephen Llwyd - "Caerllyngoed" (hymn tune)

    • Births

  • 2 January – Basil Jones, bishop (d. 1897)
  • 2 March – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1898)
  • 3 August – John Rhys Morgan, minister, teacher and poet (d. 1900)
  • 25 September - William Bloomfield Douglas, colonial governor (d. 1906)
  • 4 October - Charles Williams-Wynn, politician (d. 1896)
  • 27 October – Aneurin Jones (Aneurin Fardd), writer (d. 1904)
  • 15 December – Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), musician (d. 1885)
  • 22 December - John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), musician and minister (d. 1877)

    • Deaths

  • 30 March – David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet, 62
  • 22 May - Samuel Homfray, industrialist, 59
  • 5 June
  • (near Durham) - Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 64
  • George Lewis, theologian, 59
  • 25 September - John Henry Bowen, American politician of Welsh descent, 42
  • 22 December Sarah Wesley, widow of Charles Wesley, 96

    • References

    1822 in Wales Wikipedia
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