Incumbents

• Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
  
   - George, Prince Regent
  George IV of the United Kingdom
  George IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later...
  
  
• Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
  
   - Caroline of Brunswick
  Caroline of Brunswick
  Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was the Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 until her death...
  
  

Events

• June 20 - Creation of The Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal and Tramroad Company.
• October 1 - Balloonist James Sadler
  James Sadler (balloonist)
  James Sadler was the first English balloonist.Sadler was the second person to make a balloon ascent in England, very soon after the Tuscan Vincent Lunardi's flight on 15 September 1784 in the grounds of the Honourable Artillery Company at Moorfields. Sadler made his ascent during the month after...
  
   flies over the north Wales coastline in an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Irish Sea
  Irish Sea
  The Irish Sea separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain. It is connected to the Celtic Sea in the south by St George's Channel, and to the Atlantic Ocean in the north by the North Channel. Anglesey is the largest island within the Irish Sea, followed by the Isle of Man...
  
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• September 17- The celebration of the completion of the embankment, later known as the 'Cob' in Porthmadog
• December 30 - A brig, the Fortune, is wrecked on The Smalls, Pembrokeshire
  Pembrokeshire
  Pembrokeshire is a county in the south west of Wales. It borders Carmarthenshire to the east and Ceredigion to the north east. The county town is Haverfordwest where Pembrokeshire County Council is headquartered....
  
  , with the loss of 11 lives.
• Rioting occurs at Nefyn
  Nefyn
  Nefyn is a small town and community on the north west coast of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, Wales, with a population of 2,619. Welsh is the first language of almost 80% of its inhabitants. The A497 road terminates in the town centre.-History:...
  
   over enclosure
  Enclosure
  Enclosure or inclosure is the process which ends traditional rights such as mowing meadows for hay, or grazing livestock on common land. Once enclosed, these uses of the land become restricted to the owner, and it ceases to be common land. In England and Wales the term is also used for the...
  
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• Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets and is critically regarded as among the finest lyric poets in the English language. Shelley was famous for his association with John Keats and Lord Byron...
  
   stays at Nantgwyllt in the Elan Valley.
• Opening of:
  • Brecon and Monmouthshire Canal between Newport and Brecon.
  • Aberdare branch of Glamorganshire Canal
    Glamorganshire Canal
    The Glamorganshire Canal was a canal in south Wales, UK, running from Merthyr Tydfil to Cardiff. Construction started in 1790, and the 25 miles of canal was fully opened by 1794. Its primary purpose was to enable the Merthyr iron industries to transport their goods, and it later served the coal...
    
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New books

• Felicia Hemans
  Felicia Hemans
  -Ancestry:Felicia Heman's paternal grandfather was George Browne of Passage, co. Cork, Ireland; her maternal grandparents were Elizabeth Haydock Wagner of Lancashire and Benedict Paul Wagner , wine importer at 9 Wolstenholme Square, Liverpool. Family legend gave the Wagners a Venetian origin;...
  
   - The Domestic Affections and Other Poems
• Lewis Hopkin - Y Fêl Gafod
• 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)

Births

• January 6 - Catherine Glynne
  Catherine Gladstone
  Catherine Glynne Gladstone was the wife of British Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone for 59 years, until his death in 1898.-Family:...
  
  , future wife of William Ewart Gladstone
  William Ewart Gladstone
  William Ewart Gladstone FRS FSS was a British Liberal statesman. In a career lasting over sixty years, he served as Prime Minister four separate times , more than any other person. Gladstone was also Britain's oldest Prime Minister, 84 years old when he resigned for the last time...
  
   (d. 1900)
• February 3 - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)
  • April 3 - Henry Richard
    Henry Richard
    Rev. Henry Richard MP , "the Apostle of Peace", was a Congregational minister and Welsh Member of Parliament, 1868-88. The son of the Rev...
    
    , pacifist politician (d. 1888)
• May 19 - Lady Charlotte Guest
  Lady Charlotte Guest
  Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Guest, , later Lady Charlotte Schreiber, was an English businesswoman and translator...
  
  , translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)

Deaths

• January 15 - Theophilus Jones, historian, 52
• March 13 - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge
  Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge
  Henry Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge , known as Sir Henry Bayly, 3rd Baronet, of Plas Newydd, until 1769 and as The Lord Paget between 1769 and 1784, was a British peer.-Background:...
  
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