1830 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1830 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- February 23 - William Carey becomes Bishop of St Asaph.
- April 23 - John Montgomery Traherne marries Charlotte Louisa Talbot, daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam.
- The Penydarren works at Merthyr Tydfil produce the rails for the world's first steam railway.
- The Plymouth ironworks produces over 12,000 tons of bar-iron, compared with 7,941 tons ten years earlier.
- Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed Treasurer of the Navy by the Duke of Wellington.
- The Cambrian Quarterly Magazine is founded.
Arts and literature
New books
- Ellis Evans - Anogaeth i Athrawon ac Athrawesau ein Hysgolion Sabothol
- Felicia Hemans - Songs of the Affections
- Benjamin Jones (PA Môn) - Athrawiaeth Bedydd (1830)
- Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court
Music
- Thomas Griffiths (Tau Gimel) - Casgliad o Hymnau
Births
- January 23 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (d. 1861)
- April 22 - Sarah Emily Davies, educator (d. 1921)
- May - Richard Davies (Tafolog), poet and critic (d. 1904)
- May 25 - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (d. 1877)
Deaths
- January 12 - Owen Davies, Wesleyan Methodist leader
- June 26 - King George IV of the United Kingdom, formerly the second longest-serving Prince of Wales (1762–1820)
- November 18 - John Howell (Ioan ab Hywel or Ioan Glandyfroedd), poet
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