Events

• February 23 - William Carey
  William Carey (bishop)
  William Carey was an English churchman and headmaster, bishop of Exeter and bishop of St Asaph.-Life:He was born on 18 November 1769...
  
   becomes Bishop of St Asaph
  Bishop of St Asaph
  The Bishop of St Asaph heads the Church in Wales diocese of St Asaph.The diocese covers the counties of Conwy and Flintshire, Wrexham county borough, the eastern part of Merioneth in Gwynedd and part of northern Powys. The Episcopal seat is located in the Cathedral Church of St Asaph in the town of...
  
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• April 23 - John Montgomery Traherne marries Charlotte Louisa Talbot, daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam.
• The Penydarren
  Penydarren
  Penydarren Ironworks was the fourth of the great ironworks established at Merthyr Tydfil in South Wales.Built in 1784 by the brothers Samuel Homfray, Jeremiah Homfray, and Thomas Homfray, all sons of Francis Homfray of Stourbridge. Their father, Francis, for a time managed a nail warehouse there...
  
   works at Merthyr Tydfil produce the rails for the world's first steam railway.
• The Plymouth ironworks produces over 12,000 tons of bar-iron, compared with 7,941 tons ten years earlier.
• Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed Treasurer of the Navy by the Duke of Wellington.
• The Cambrian Quarterly Magazine is founded.

New books

• Ellis Evans
  Ellis Evans
  Ellis Evans is a Welsh scholar and academic. He was born in the Towy Valley in Carmarthenshire and went to Llandeilo Grammar School....
  
   - Anogaeth i Athrawon ac Athrawesau ein Hysgolion Sabothol
• 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;...
  
   - Songs of the Affections
• Benjamin Jones (PA Môn) - Athrawiaeth Bedydd (1830)
• Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick
  Samuel Rush Meyrick
  Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick was an English collector. He lived at Goodrich Court, Goodrich, Herefordshire, England, and introduced the systematic study of arms and armour.-Life:...
  
   - Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court

Births

• January 23 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn
  Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn
  Thomas Edward Mostyn Lloyd-Mostyn , was a British Conservative Member of Parliament .Lloyd-Mostyn was the eldest son and heir apparent of Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn...
  
  , politician (d. 1861)
• April 22 - Sarah Emily Davies, educator (d. 1921)
• May - Richard Davies (Tafolog), poet and critic (d. 1904)
• May 25 - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai)
  Robert Williams (Trebor Mai)
  Robert Williams , usually referred to by his bardic name Trebor Mai, was a Welsh language poet, born in Llanrhychwyn, near Llanrwst, in the old county of Caernarfonshire, north Wales....
  
  , poet (d. 1877)

Deaths

• January 12 - Owen Davies, Wesleyan Methodist leader
• June 26 - King George IV of the United Kingdom
  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...
  
  , formerly the second longest-serving Prince of Wales (1762–1820)
• November 18 - John Howell
  John Howell
  John Thomas Howell is a former professional American football player. He played safety for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Seattle Seahawks in the National Football League...
  
  (Ioan ab Hywel or Ioan Glandyfroedd), poet