1810 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
 * Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
 * Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes
 * Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
 * Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
 * Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
 * Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney


 * Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
 * Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver
 * Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

Events

 * January - Novelist Thomas Love Peacock first visits Maentwrog where he will settle for a time.
 * 3 March - Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.
 * 14 April - James Cotton, precentor of Bangor Cathedral, marries Mary Anne, daughter of Henry Majendie, Bishop of Bangor.
 * 27 September - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.
 * 24 October - The foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.
 * date unknown
 * Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
 * Hafod Copperworks opens in the Lower Swansea valley.
 * Etcher Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
 * Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough; the name is later changed in honour of Hardy Jones (1747–1819).

New books

 * The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XI
 * Corff y Gainc (anthology)
 * Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corph y Gaingc
 * Richard Fenton - Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire
 * Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures

Births

 * 3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879)
 * 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)
 * 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873)
 * 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (died 1869)
 * 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (died 1849)
 * 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (died 1862 in Utah)
 * date unknown - Thomas Jones, librarian (died 1875)

Deaths

 * 10 March - George Morgan, American merchant of Welsh parentage, 67
 * April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family
 * 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71
 * 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70
 * 12 August - David Jones, Church of England priest who was supportive of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 74
 * 27 September - John Williams, barrister, 53