1826 in Wales
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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
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