1838 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1838 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- October - John Frost joins the Chartist movement.
- Newly created baronets include Sir John Josiah Guest, Sir Benjamin Hall and Sir John Edwards.
- John Cory of Devon opens his chandlery near the Custom House in Cardiff.
- Thomas Gee joins his father's printing business.
- Tinplate manufacture at Ystalyfera begins.
- Foundation of the Bangor Church Building Society.
Arts and literature
- A major eisteddfod is held at Abergavenny.
New books
- Sir Henry Ellis (ed.) - Registrum vulgariter nuncupatum "The record of Caernarvon"
- Lady Charlotte Guest begins publication of her translation into English of the Mabinogion.
- Isaac Williams - Thoughts in Past Years
- Jane Williams (Ysgafell) - Twenty Essays on the Practical Improvement of God's Providential Dispensations as Means to the Moral Discipline to the Christian
Visual arts
- J. M. W. Turner paints a watercolour of Flint Castle.
Births
- April 14 - John Thomas, photographer (d. 1905)
- December 8 - Charles Gresford Edmondes, clergyman and teacher (d. 1893)
- December 27 - James Conway Brown, musician (d. 1908)
Deaths
- January 23 - Pascoe Grenfell, industrialist and politician, 76
- March 14 - Wyndham Lewis, MP, 57
- July 19 - Christmas Evans, preacher, 71
- August 26 - Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge, 79
- September 18 - Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris), poet, 69
- December 26 - Julia Ann Hatton, novelist, 74
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