1825 in Wales

1825 in Wales
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1825 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1825

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1825 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

January 2 - The square rigged transatlantic ocean liner Diamond strikes Sarn Badrig in Cardigan Bay and sinks.
First public wharves built at Portmadoc.
Rails for the Stockton and Darlington Railway (opened September 27) are made at Ebbw Vale.
Publication of Seren Gomer moves to Carmarthen.
Sir Thomas Foley becomes an admiral.

February 12 - John Humffreys Parry, antiquary, 39 (in a tavern brawl)
February 24 - Thomas Bowdler, editor, 70
April 16 - Hugh Jones (Maesglasau), hymn-writer, 75
May 2 - Michael Hughes, industrialist, 72
June 9 - Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist, 81
August 10 - Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor, 52
September 19 - Sir Thomas Stepney, 9th Baronet, groom of the bedchamber to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and last of his line, 65