1816 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1816 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents
Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events
10 February - Pembroke Dock's first Royal Navy ships are launched: HMS Ariadne and HMS Valorous.
7 May - Hay Railway opens throughout.
24 July - Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow (rebuilt in cast iron), is opened across the River Wye.
9 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, takes a room at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea, and instructs the maid not to disturb her. The following day she is found dead, having taken a fatal dose of laudanum.
 Nantyglo Round Towers built.
 Taliesin Williams, son of Iolo Morganwg, opens a school at Merthyr Tydfil.

Arts and literature

New books
Jane Ellis - Cerddi (first published Welsh language book by a woman)
Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist
Ann Hatton - Chronicles of an Illustrious House
Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774

Music
John Ellis - Mawl yr Arglwydd (collection of hymns)

Births
11 January - Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
7 March - Huw Derfel Hughes, poet and historian (d. 1890)
3 June - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876)
11 June - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
16 August - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff 
date unknown
Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
Edward Meredith Price, composer (d. 1898)

Deaths
23 April - Thomas Johnes, landowner and politician, 67
18 June - Thomas Henry, apothecary, 81
29 June - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher, 78
17 July - John Lewis, missionary, about 24 (fever)
10 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Shelley, 22 (committed suicide at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea)
date unknown 
Benjamin Davies, first Baptist minister at Haverfordwest (age unknown)
David Jones, barrister ("the Welsh Freeholder"), c.51

References

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