1826 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1826 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

• January 30 - Opening of the Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford.
• July 1 - Opening of Telford's Conwy Suspension Bridge.
• The Calvinistic Methodist "connexion" produces its Constitutional Deed. It incorporates all property (such as chapels) as the property of the connexion as a whole.

Arts and literature

New books

• Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion) - Golwg ar Gyflwr yr Iddewon, Cerdd
• James Humphreys - Observations on the Actual State of the English Laws of Real Property, with the outlines of a Code

Music

• May 24 - John Parry (Bardd Alaw) is given a benefit concert by the Society of Cymmrodorion.

Births

• January 13 - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff (d. 1913)
• March 1 - John Thomas, harpist (d. 1913)
• May 8 - George Osborne Morgan, lawyer (d. 1897)
• May 11 - David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader (d. 1891)

Deaths

• April - Ned Turner, prize-fighter, 34
• December 18 - Iolo Morganwg, poet and antiquary, 79
• December 28 - Nathaniel Williams, theologian and hymn-writer, 84

• Date unknown:
  • Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda, 70