1822 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1822 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- April - Launch of the Chester Cymmrodorion Society.
- 13 June - William Lloyd climbs Boorendo in the Himalayas.
- 12 August - St David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) is founded by Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's.
- Beginning of "Rhyfel y Sais Bach", a dispute over enclosures in Pembrokeshire.
- Horse-drawn trams begin a passenger service between Tredegar and Newport.
- Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet, establishes a private printing press in Broadway Tower on his estate at Middle Hill in Worcestershire.
Arts and literature
New books
- John Hughes - An Essay on the Ancient and Present State of the Welsh Language
- William Owen Pughe - Hu Gadarn
- John Montgomery Traherne - Lists of Knights of the Shire of Glamorgan
- Y Cymmrodor (first, unnumbered volume)
Music
- Stephen Llwyd - "Caerllyngoed" (hymn tune)
Births
- 2 January – Basil Jones, bishop (d. 1897)
- 2 March – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1898)
- 3 August – John Rhys Morgan, minister, teacher and poet (d. 1900)
- 25 September - William Bloomfield Douglas, colonial governor (d. 1906)
- 4 October - Charles Williams-Wynn, politician (d. 1896)
- 27 October – Aneurin Jones (Aneurin Fardd), writer (d. 1904)
- 15 December – Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), musician (d. 1885)
- 22 December - John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), musician and minister (d. 1877)
Deaths
- 30 March – David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet, 62
- 22 May - Samuel Homfray, industrialist, 59
- 5 June
- (near Durham) - Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 64
- George Lewis, theologian, 59
- 25 September - John Henry Bowen, American politician of Welsh descent, 42
- 22 December[1] Sarah Wesley, widow of Charles Wesley, 96[2][3]
References
- ↑ Charles Wesley timeline
- ↑ Cheetham, J. Keith (2003). On the Trail of John Wesley. Edinburgh: Luath Press. pp. 95–97. ISBN 1-84282-023-0.
- ↑ Barry, Joseph (2010). Temperley, Nicholas; Banfield, Stephen, eds. Music and the Wesleys. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 141–146. ISBN 978-0-252-07767-8.
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