1821 in Wales
Encyclopedia
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1821 to Wales
and its people
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
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Events
- The new king visits CarmarthenCarmarthenCarmarthen is a community in, and the county town of, Carmarthenshire, Wales. It is sited on the River Towy north of its mouth at Carmarthen Bay. In 2001, the population was 14,648....
; supporters of his estranged wifeCaroline of BrunswickCaroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was the Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 until her death...
start a riot. - July 27 - Sir Thomas Philipps is created a baronet.
- November - The first edition of Y Dysgedydd appears.
- The first gasGasGas is one of the three classical states of matter . Near absolute zero, a substance exists as a solid. As heat is added to this substance it melts into a liquid at its melting point , boils into a gas at its boiling point, and if heated high enough would enter a plasma state in which the electrons...
street lighting in Wales is installed at SwanseaSwanseaSwansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands...
. - William MadocksWilliam MadocksWilliam Alexander Madocks was a landowner and Member of Parliament for the town of Boston in Lincolnshire from 1802 to 1820, and then for Chippenham in Wiltshire from 1820 to 1826...
obtains an Act of Parliament allowing him to build a port, later known as PorthmadogPorthmadogPorthmadog , known locally as "Port", and historically rendered into English as Portmadoc, is a small coastal town and community in the Eifionydd area of Gwynedd, in Wales. Prior to the Local Government Act 1972 it was in the administrative county of Caernarfonshire. The town lies east of...
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New books
- John EliasJohn EliasJohn Elias was a Christian preacher in Wales in the first half of the 19th century, as part of the Welsh Methodist revival. His preaching was noted as being exceptionally powerful, "as if talking fire down from heaven". On one occasion it is said he preached to a crowd of 10,000 people. He was a...
- Golygiad Ysgrythurol ar Gyfiawnhad Pechadur - Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) - Pedwar Cyflwr Dyn (translation of a work by Thomas BostonThomas BostonThomas Boston was a Scottish church leader.He was born at Duns. His father, John Boston, and his mother, Alison Trotter, were both Covenanters. He was educated at Edinburgh, and licensed in 1697 by the presbytery of Chirnside...
- David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr)David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr)David Richards , better-known by his bardic name Dafydd Ionawr, was a Welsh-language poet, born near Tywyn in Gwynedd, north-west Wales....
- Cywydd y Dilyw
Births
- May 1 - William Latham Bevan, church historian (d. 1908)
- June 24 - Guillermo RawsonGuillermo RawsonDr. Guillermo Rawson was a medical doctor and politician in nineteenth-century Argentina. As Interior Minister in 1862 he met Captain Love Jones-Parry and Lewis Jones who were on their way to Patagonia to investigate whether it was suitable for the creation of a Welsh settlement there...
, Argentinian politician (d. 1890) - July 6 - Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea (d. 1894)
- July 16 - John Jones (Mathetes), preacher and writer (d. 1878)
- November 14 - John Owen (Owain Alaw)John Owen (Owain Alaw)John Owen, also known by his bardic name Owain Alaw Pencerdd , was a Welsh language poet, baritone vocalist, accompanist and musician.-Early life:...
, musician (d. 1883)
Deaths
- February 16 - Hugh DaviesHugh Davies (botanist)Hugh Davies was a Welsh botanist and Anglican clergyman. He spent most of his professional life on the island of Anglesey and published a treatise on the flora of the county, which was the first volume to cross-reference plant names in the Welsh language with their scientific names.-Life:Davies...
, botanist, 81 - May 2 - Hester ThraleHester ThraleHester Lynch Thrale was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and 18th-century life.-Biography:Thrale was born at Bodvel Hall, Caernarvonshire, Wales...
, diarist, 80 - May 21 - John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors)John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors)John Jones , better known by his bardic name Jac Glan-y-gors, was a Welsh language satirical poet and radical pamphleteer, born in Cerrigydrudion, Denbighshire, north Wales....
, poet and satirist, 54 - July 13 - Sir Watkin LewesWatkin LewesSir Watkin Lewes was a Welsh politician in England.Lewes was the second son of Reverend Watkin Lewes, Pen-Y-Benglog, Melinau, and Ann Williams, Treamlod , Pembrokeshire. He was educated in Shrewsbury School and in Magdalene College, Cambridge where he graduated in 1763...
, lord mayor of London, 81 - August 7 - Caroline of BrunswickCaroline of BrunswickCaroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was the Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 until her death...
, former Princess of Wales (1795–1820), 53 - November - Richard FentonRichard Fenton-Life:Fenton was born at St. David's, Pembrokeshire, received his education in the cathedral school there, and at an early age obtained a situation in London in the custom house...
, poet and author, 74