1825 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1825 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- January 2 - The square rigged transatlantic ocean liner Diamond strikes Sarn Badrig in Cardigan Bay and sinks.
- First public wharves built at Portmadoc.
- Rails for the Stockton and Darlington Railway (opened September 27) are made at Ebbw Vale.
- Publication of Seren Gomer moves to Carmarthen.
- Sir Thomas Foley becomes an admiral.
Arts and literature
New books
- John Brickdale Blakeway & Hugh Owen - A History of Shrewsbury
- John Davies (Brychan) - Y Gog
- Felicia Hemans - The Forest Sanctuary
- Peter Bailey Williams - Tragwyddol Orphwysfa'r Saint
Music
- Jedediah Richards - Diddanwch y Pererinion
Births
- January 15 - Eleazar Roberts, writer and musician (d. 1912)
- January 25 - Robert Piercy, civil engineer (d. 1894)
- June 7 - R. D. Blackmore, novelist (d. 1900)
Deaths
- February 12 - John Humffreys Parry, antiquary, 39 (in a tavern brawl)
- February 24 - Thomas Bowdler, editor, 70
- April 16 - Hugh Jones (Maesglasau), hymn-writer, 75
- May 2 - Michael Hughes, industrialist, 72
- June 9 - Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist, 81
- August 10 - Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor, 52
- September 19 - Sir Thomas Stepney, 9th Baronet, groom of the bedchamber to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and last of his line, 65
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