1833 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1833 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

January 29 - In the United Kingdom general election, Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, defeats Tory candidate Panton Corbett to win the enlarged constituency of Montgomery for the Liberals.
April 2 - Launch of HMS Royal William at Pembroke Dock. This was the first ship to be built there with over 100 guns.
Isaac Williams becomes Dean of Trinity College, Oxford.
Lady Charlotte Bertie marries John Josiah Guest.
Adrian Stephens invents the steam whistle as a safety device for use at Dowlais Ironworks; he fails to patent it.

Sir Harford Jones Brydges - The Dynasty of the Kajars, translated from the original Persian manuscript
Eliza Constantia Campbell - Stories from the History of Wales

January 10 - Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet (d. 1877)
January 23 - Sir Lewis Morris, poet (d. 1907)
July 6 - David Hugh Jones (Dewi Arfon), poet (d. 1869)
July 12 - John Hugh Evans, Wesleyan minister and temperance campaigner (d. 1886)
August 20 - General Sir James Hills-Johnes, military leader (d. 1919)
date unknown - James James (Iago ap Ieuan), harpist and composer (d. 1902)
- Jacob Thomas, VC recipient (d. 1911)