1838 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1838 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

• October - John Frost joins the Chartist movement.
• Newly-created baronets include Sir John Josiah Guest, Sir Benjamin Hall and Sir John Edwards.
• John Cory of Devon opens his chandlery near the Custom House in Cardiff.
• Thomas Gee joins his father's printing business.
• Foundation of the Bangor Church Building Society.
• J. M. W. Turner paints a water-colour of Flint Castle.

Arts and literature

• A major eisteddfod is held at Abergavenny.

New books

• Sir Henry Ellis (ed.) - Registrum vulgariter nuncupatum "The record of Caernarvon"
• Isaac Williams - Thoughts in Past Years
• Jane Williams (Ysgafell) - Twenty Essays on the Practical Improvement of God's Providential Dispensations as Means to the Moral Discipline to the Christian

Music

Births

• April 14 - John Thomas, photographer (d. 1905)
• December 8 - Charles Gresford Edmondes, clergyman and teacher (d. 1893)
• December 27 - James Conway Brown, musician (d. 1908)

Deaths

• January 23 - Pascoe Grenfell, industrialist and politician, 76
• March 14 - Wyndham Lewis, MP, 57
• July 19 - Christmas Evans, preacher, 71
• August 26 - John Nicholl, politician and judge, 79
• September 18 - Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris), poet, 69
• December 26 - Julia Ann Hatton, novelist, 74