1812 in Wales

1812 in Wales
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1812 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1812

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1812 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

20 June - Creation of The Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal and Tramroad Company.
Summer - Percy Bysshe Shelley stays at Nantgwyllt in the Elan Valley with his wife Harriet.
September - Rioting occurs at Nefyn over enclosures.
17 September - The celebration of the completion of the embankment, later known as the 'Cob' in Porthmadog
30 December - A brig, the Fortune, is wrecked on The Smalls, Pembrokeshire, with the loss of 11 lives.
1 October - Balloonist James Sadler flies over the north Wales coastline in an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Irish Sea.
Opening of:
- Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal between Newport and Brecon.
- Aberdare branch of Glamorganshire Canal.

Felicia Hemans - The Domestic Affections and Other Poems
Lewis Hopkin - Y Fêl Gafod
Hugh Jones - Arwyrain Amaethyddiaeth
Benjamin Millingchamp - A Sermon preached at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, on Thursday, July 4, 1811
The New Flora Britannica (with illustrations by Sydenham Teak Edwards)