1822 in Wales

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1822 in the United Kingdom

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1822 to Wales and its people.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 New books 3.2 Music 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

[edit] Events

• April - Launch of the Chester Cymmrodorion Society.
• Beginning of "Rhyfel y Sais Bach", a dispute over enclosures in Pembrokeshire.
• Horse-drawn trams begin a passenger service between Tredegar and Newport.
• St David's College, Lampeter, is founded.
• Sir Thomas Philipps, 1st Baronet, establishes a private printing press in Broadway Tower on his estate at Middle Hill in Worcestershire.
• Sir William Lloyd journeys through the foothills of the Himalayas as far as Boorendo Pass.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] 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

[edit] Music

• Stephen Llwyd - "Caerllyngoed" (hymn tune)

[edit] Births

• January 2 - William Basil Jones, bishop (d. 1897)
• March 2 - Michael D. Jones, Patagonian settler (d. 1898)
• August 3 - John Rhys Morgan, minister, teacher and poet (d. 1900)
• October 27 - Aneurin Jones (Aneurin Fardd), writer (d. 1904)
• December 15 - Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), musician (d. 1885)

[edit] Deaths

• March 30 - David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet, 62
• June 5 - George Lewis, theologian, 59
• date unknown - Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons (b. 1758)