Английская Википедия:1816 in Wales

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Шаблон:Use Welsh English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1816 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes (until 23 April)
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney

• Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson (until 4 July) Herbert Marsh (from 25 August)
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

Events

• 10 February - Pembroke Dock's first Royal Navy ships are launched: HMS Ariadne and HMS Valorous.
• 7 May - Hay Railway opens throughout.
• 24 July - Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow (rebuilt in cast iron), is opened across the River Wye.
• 9 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, takes a room at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea, and instructs the maid not to disturb her. The following day she is found dead, having taken a fatal dose of laudanum.
• Nantyglo Round Towers built.
• Taliesin Williams, son of Iolo Morganwg, opens a school at Merthyr Tydfil.

Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Ann Hatton - Chronicles of an Illustrious House
• Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774

Welsh language

• Jane Ellis - Cerddi (first published Welsh language book by a woman)
• Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist

Music

• John Ellis - Mawl yr Arglwydd (collection of hymns)

Births

• 11 January - Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
• 7 March - Huw Derfel Hughes, poet and historian (d. 1890)
• 3 June - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876)
• 11 June - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
• 16 August - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff
• date unknown
  • Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
  • Edward Meredith Price, composer (d. 1898)

Deaths

• 23 April - Thomas Johnes, landowner and politician, 67
• 18 June - Thomas Henry, apothecary, 81
• 29 June - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher, 78
• 4 July - Richard Watson, Bishop of Llandaff, 78
• 17 July - John Lewis, missionary, about 24 (fever)
• 10 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Shelley, 22 (committed suicide at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea)
• date unknown
  • Benjamin Davies, first Baptist minister at Haverfordwest (age unknown)
  • David Jones, barrister ("the Welsh Freeholder"), c.51

See also

• 1816 in Ireland