1814 in Wales

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1814 in the United Kingdom
1814 in Ireland
Other events of 1814

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.

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[edit] Incumbents

[edit] Events

  • February - Anthony Bacon II sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.
  • May - Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital is founded.
  • Summer solstice - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg) declaims his poem "Heddwch" from the Logan Stone in the presence of the Gorsedd of Morgannwg, at the "second Assemblage"
  • September 10 - The last recorded duel in Wales is fought at Newcastle Emlyn. Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling.
  • Sydenham Teak Edwards founds the Botanical Register.
  • The Admiralty re-locates from Milford Haven to Paterchurch, resulting in the founding of Pembroke Dock.
  • Lampeter is granted its town charter.
  • Elijah Waring settles at Neath.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] New books

  • Thomas William - Perl Mewn Adfyd

[edit] Music

[edit] Births

  • January - George Grant Francis, philanthropist (d. 1882)
  • January 29 - Edward William Thomas, composer (d. 1892)
  • March 5 - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
  • June 16 - Robert Davies (Cyndeyrn), composer (d. 1867)
  • date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)

[edit] Deaths