1824 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1824 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – vacant
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 8 September – The Society of Cymmrodorion sponsors a major eisteddfod at Welshpool.
- 18 December – William Chambers inherits the Stepney estate.
- The first gasometer in Wales is built at Greenfield, Flintshire.
- William Davies Evans develops the Evans Gambit.
- Major repairs to Bangor Cathedral are begun.
- Two new furnaces are erected at the Dyffryn ironworks by Anthony Hill.
- Approximate date of construction of the "leat" at Loggerheads, Denbighshire, used in the local lead mining industry.
Arts and literature
New books
- T. G. Cumming – Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai at Bangor and over the River Conway
- David Davis (Castellhywel) – Telyn Dewi
- Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) – An Elegy on the death of Benjamin B. Jones, the eldest surviving child of B. Jones of Holyhead
- Welsh Minstrelsy: Containing the Land beneath the Sea
Music
- Seren Gomer (collection of hymns including Grongar by John Edwards)
Births
- 17 February - James Crichton-Stuart, politician (d. 1891)
- March - Isaac D. Seyburn, Welsh-born merchant captain and naval officer (d. 1895)
- 24 July – Robert Jones Derfel, poet (d. 1905)
- 15 December - Morgan Thomas, Welsh-born Australian surgeon and philanthropist (d. 1903)
- date unknown
- John Basson Humffray, political reformer in Australia (d. 1891)
- David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician (d. 1891)
Deaths
- 1 February - John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician and soldier, 64
- 18 April – Edward Jones, harpist ("Bardd y Brenin"), 72
- 30 July – David Howell, American jurist of Welsh descent, 77
- November – William Moses, poet, 82
- 24 December - John Downman, artist, 74
- date unknown – Thomas Parry, Chennai merchant, 56
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