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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.
[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] 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
- March 12 - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?
- May 12 - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66
- June 21 - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71
- September 26 - Owen Jones (Owain Myfyr), literary figure, 73
- October 5 - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58
- November 16 - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70