1809 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1809 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- 9 February - South Stack Lighthouse off Anglesey first illuminated.
- 10 May - Stapleton Cotton plays a prominent role in the Battle of Grijó.
- David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, donates £105 towards scholarships to give South Wales the same level of support as North Wales.
- Hawarden Castle is enlarged.
- John Rice Jones begins lead mining across the Mississippi in the future state of Missouri.
- Jeremiah Homfray opens a level at Richard Griffiths' lease in Trehafod in the Rhondda; the first full scale attempt to mine coal in the area.
Arts and literature
New books
- Edward Davies - The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids
- Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - An English-Welsh Dictionary neu Eir-Lyfr Saesneg a Chymraeg
- Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 2
Music
Births
- 18 January - John Gwyn Jeffreys, conchologist (died 1885)
- 15 February - Owen Jones, architect (died 1874)
- 17 April - Thomas Brigstocke, painter (died 1881)
- 24 May - William Chambers, politician (died 1882)
- 26 May - G. T. Clark, engineer (died 1885)
- 11 August - Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), writer (died 1880)
- 20 August - Morris Williams (Nicander), writer (died 1874)
- 27 October - Lewis Edwards, Nonconformist minister and educator (died 1887)
- 22 December - John Hanmer, 1st Baron Hanmer, politician (died 1882)
- date unknown - Evan James, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem (died 1878)
Deaths
- April - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven, 59
- October 28 - Hugh Pugh, Independent minister, 29