1820 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1820 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – George, Prince Regent (until 29 January 1820)
- Princess of Wales – Caroline of Brunswick (until 29 January 1820)
Events
- 29 January – The Prince of Wales becomes King George IV on the death of King George III of the United Kingdom.
- 14 April - At the completion of the United Kingdom general election:
- Henry Paget, later Marquess of Anglesey, is elected as member for Anglesey.
- Wyndham Lewis is elected for Cardiff.
- Christopher Cole is re-elected for Glamorganshire.
- The first "colliery school" in the South Wales coalfield is established at Hirwaun.
- Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc) founds a Welsh school at Gelli Felen.
- Crawshay Bailey becomes a partner at Nant-y-glo ironworks with his brother, Joseph Bailey.
- The Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion is revived, having been in abeyance since 1787.
- John Scandrett Harford meets Bishop Thomas Burgess and offers to donate the site of Lampeter Castle for the construction of St David's College.
- Tondu Ironworks is built by Sir Robert Price.
Arts and literature
New books
- Felicia Hemans – The Sceptic
- John Jones (Tegid) – Traethawd ar Gadwedigaeth yr Iaith Gymraeg
- Robert Jones – Drych yr Amseroedd
- William Probert - Y Gododdin (first English translation)
Music
- Edward Jones – Hen Ganiadau Cymru
Births
- 13 May - Robert Owen, theologian (d. 1902)
- 21 May – Sir Thomas Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician and landowner (d. 1877)
- 22 May - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1885)
- 20 June – Thomas Essile Davies (Dewi Wyn o Essyllt), poet (d. 1891)
- 5 September – Evan Jones (Ieuan Gwynedd), minister and journalist (d. 1852)
Deaths
- 20 January - Eliezer Williams, clergyman and genealogist, 75
- 29 January – King George III of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales 1751–1760, 81
- 16 June – Thomas Jones of Denbigh, Methodist preacher and writer, 64
- 27 June – William Lort Mansel, bishop and academic, 67
- 23 August – Edward Randles, harpist, 57
- 28 August – Henry Mills, musician, 63
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