1810 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- April 14 - James Henry Cotton marries Mary Anne, daughter of Bishop Majendie.
- September 27 - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.
- Foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.
- Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.
- Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
- Hafod Copperworks established in the Lower Swansea valley.
- Artist Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
- Writer Thomas Love Peacock settles in Maentwrog.
- The Merioneth Agricultural Society is founded.
- Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough.
Arts and literature
New books
- The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XI
- Corff y Gainc (anthology)
- Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corph y Gaingc
- Richard Fenton - Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire
- Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures
Music
Births
- 3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879)
- 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)
- 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (d. 1873)
- 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (d. 1869)
- 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (d. 1849 in India)
- 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (d. 1862 in Utah)
- Thomas Jones, librarian (d. 1875)
Deaths
- April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family
- 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71
- 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70
- 12 August - David Jones, Baptist minister, 74
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