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1823 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1823 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – vacant
  • Princess of Wales – vacant

    • Events

  • 13 January - Edward Paget, former MP for Caernarvon, is appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India.
  • 23 January – In Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula, William Buckland discovers the "Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial (first discovered on 21 December last).
  • February
  • John Frost is sentenced to six months in prison for a libel against the town clerk of Newport.
  • Mercy Whitney describes the burial, in Hawaii, of the infant son of Isaac and Elizabeth Peke Davis: "A regular procession of two and two followed the corpse. Going into the fort in which the grave was dug seemed like entering a burying ground, more so than anything I have witnessed since I left America."
  • 4 March - Llanuwchllyn-born John Richards is elected to the United States Congress.
  • 26 March – The packet ship Alert sinks off The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey, with the loss of a hundred lives.
  • Summer – Stanley Embankment completed by Thomas Telford carrying the Holyhead road between Anglesey and Holy Island.
  • A major eisteddfod is held at Mold.
  • The Welsh Literary Society of Brecon is established by Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc).
  • The Presbyterian Church of Wales draws up a confession of faith and becomes a separate body.

    • New books

  • Felicia Hemans – The Siege of Valencia
  • Huw Morys – Eos Ceiriog, sef casgliad o bêr ganiadau Huw Morus (posthumous, ed. Walter Davies)
  • Ioan Siencyn – Casgliad o Ganiadau Difyr (posthumous)

    • Music

  • David Charles – Hymnau ar Amrywiol Achosion (hymns)
  • John Ellis – Eliot (hymn tune)

    • Births

  • 8 January – Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist (d. 1913)
  • 11 February – Llewellyn Turner, politician (d. 1903)
  • March – Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid (d. 1905)
  • 19 April - Anna Laetitia Waring, poet and hymn-writer (d. 1910)
  • 17 November – Sir John Evans, archaeologist (d. 1908)

    • Deaths

  • 26 February – John Philip Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 66
  • 11 November - Sir Richard Richards, politician and judge, 71
  • 28 November - Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford, landowner, 79
  • 30 November – William Joseph Williams, American painter of Welsh parentage, 64
  • 4 December – John Ryland Harris (Ieuan Ddu), printer, 20

    • References

    1823 in Wales Wikipedia
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