1819 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1819 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- August - Thomas Telford begins construction of the Menai Suspension Bridge.
- The embankment on Telford's Holyhead Road through the Nant Ffrancon Pass is completed.
- The Welsh colony of Cardigan is established in York County, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Construction of Gwrych Castle begins.
- Scottish-born London India merchant John Christie purchases a substantial tract of the Great Forest of Brecknock from the Crown.[1]
- Approximate date - John Scandrett Harford and his brothers acquire the Peterwell estate at Lampeter
Arts and literature
- Major eisteddfodau are held at Carmarthen and Denbigh. The Gorsedd tradition (begun by Iolo Morganwg) becomes formally linked with the eisteddfod at Carmarthen.
New books
- William Owen Pughe - Coll Gwynfa (translation of Milton's Paradise Lost)
Music
- "From Greenland’s Icy Mountains", a hymn by Reginald Heber, is sung for the first time, at St Giles' Church, Wrexham.
Births
- 3 March - William Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech (died 1904)
- 4 November - Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (died 1894)
- 15 November - Arthur Wynn Williams, physician (died 1886)
- 9 December - John Roose Elias, writer (died 1881)
Deaths
- 31 January - Thomas Bevan, missionary (born c.1796)
- 8 February - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanist, 51
- 25 June - John Abel, minister, 49
- 6 November - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales, 21
- 11 November - Moses Griffiths, artist, 72
References
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