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1825 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1825 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 2 January – The square-rigged transatlantic ocean liner Diamond strikes Sarn Badrig in Cardigan Bay and sinks.
  • The first public wharves are built at Portmadoc.
  • Rails for the Stockton and Darlington Railway (opened 27 September) are made at Ebbw Vale.
  • Publication of Seren Gomer moves to Carmarthen.
  • Sir Thomas Foley becomes an admiral.

    • New books

  • John Brickdale Blakeway and Hugh Owen – A History of Shrewsbury
  • John Davies (Brychan) – Y Gog
  • Felicia Hemans – The Forest Sanctuary
  • Peter Bailey Williams – Tragwyddol Orphwysfa'r Saint

    • Music

  • Jedediah Richards – Diddanwch y Pererinion

    • Births

  • 15 January – Eleazar Roberts, writer and musician (d. 1912)
  • 25 January – Robert Piercy, civil engineer (d. 1894)
  • 7 June – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist of Anglo-Welsh parentage (d. 1900)

    • Deaths

  • 12 February – John Humffreys Parry, antiquary, 39 (in a tavern brawl)
  • 24 February – Thomas Bowdler, editor, 70
  • 16 April – Hugh Jones (Maesglasau), hymn-writer, 75
  • 2 May – Michael Hughes, industrialist, 72
  • 9 June – Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist, 81
  • 10 August – Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor, 52
  • 19 September – Sir Thomas Stepney, 9th Baronet, groom of the bedchamber to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and last of his line, 65

    • References

    1825 in Wales Wikipedia
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