1812 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1812 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events
- 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.
Arts and literature
New books
- 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)
Music
- Owen Dafydd - Ballad of the Brynmorgan Explosion
Births
- 6 January - Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Ewart Gladstone (d. 1900)
- 3 February - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)
- 3 April - Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888)
- 19 May - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)
Deaths
- 15 January - Theophilus Jones, historian, 52
- 13 March - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, 77
- May - Thomas Owen, clergyman and translator, 62
- 27 November (bur.) - Jane Cave, poet, c. 58
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