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1828 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 1828 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, visits the eisteddfod at Denbigh, making it the first to receive a royal visit.
  • The Llanelly Railway is established by Act of Parliament.
  • An iron suspension bridge is built to link South Stack with Holy Island, Anglesey.
  • David Owen (Brutus) becomes editor of the periodical Lleuad yr Oes at Aberystwyth.

    • New books

  • Ellis Evans - Unoliaeth a Gweledigaeth yr Eglwys, sef, Llythyr Cymanfa Cefn Mawr
  • Thomas Prichard - The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti
  • David Saunders (Dafydd Glan Teifi) - Awdl ar Fordaith yr Apostol Paul
  • John Thomas - Telyn y Cantorion
  • John Walters - An English and Welsh Dictionary
  • Thomas Wiliam - Cwyn yr Unig

    • Music

  • William Owen (Gwilym Ddu Glan Hafren) - Y Caniedydd Crefyddol (collection of hymn tunes)

    • Births

  • 30 January - John David Jenkins, philanthropist (d. 1876)
  • 4 March - Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys), clergyman and writer (d. 1870)
  • 13 March - Thomas Morgan Thomas, missionary (d. 1884)
  • 6 May - Sir Hugh Rowlands, soldier (d. 1909)
  • 4 June - David Thomas (Dewi Hefin), poet (d. 1909)
  • 23 September - Charles James Watkin Williams, politician (d. 1884)
  • 30 October - Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford, lawyer and statesman (d. 1911)
  • 13 December - David Lewis Wooding, genealogist (d. 1891)
  • date unknown
  • John Richard Hughes, evangelist (d. 1893)
  • John Pryce, clergyman and writer (d. 1903)

    • Deaths

  • 19 February - Thomas Jones (Y Bardd Cloff), 59
  • 29 March - Griffith Rowlands, surgeon, 65
  • 12 May - Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist, 75
  • September - William Madocks, landowner, 55
  • 29 December - Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, 67
  • date unknown
  • Edward Charles (Siamas Gwynedd), writer, 70?
  • Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet, politician

    • References

    1828 in Wales Wikipedia
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