1810s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1810–1819 to Wales and its people.

Events

 * 1810
 * 1811
 * 1812
 * 1813
 * 1814
 * 1815
 * 1816
 * 1817
 * 1818
 * 1819

New books

 * Thomas Charles - Biblical Dictionary, vol. 4 (1811)
 * Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corph y Gaingc (1810)
 * Richard Fenton
 * A Tour in Quest of Genealogy (1811)
 * Memoirs of an Old Wig (1815)
 * Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist (1816)
 * Ann Hatton
 * Cambrian Pictures (1810)
 * Chronicles of an Illustrious House (1816)
 * Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 (1816)
 * Thomas Jones (Dinbych) - Hanes Diwigwyr, Merthyron, a Chyffeswyr Eglwys Loegr (1813)
 * William Owen Pughe - Coll Gwynfa (translation of Milton's Paradise Lost) (1819)
 * David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl (1815)
 * John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst (1817)

Music

 * 1811
 * John James - Pigion o Hymnau
 * 1817
 * Robert Williams - Llanfair (hymn tune, formerly named Bethel); Williams recorded that the tune was composed on 14 July of this year.

Births

 * 1810
 * 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)
 * 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (d. 1873)
 * 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (d. 1869)
 * 24 January - Thomas Jones, missionary (d. 1849)
 * 1811
 * 14 January - Rowland Prichard, musician (d. 1887)
 * 26 January - Roger Edwards, minister (d. 1886)
 * 11 March - Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), poet (d. 1866)
 * 11 July - William Robert Grove, inventor (d. 1896)
 * date unknown - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary (d. 1862)
 * 1812
 * 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)
 * 1813
 * 30 June - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895)
 * 1 August - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873)
 * 10 October - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
 * date unknown - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)
 * 1814
 * 5 March - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
 * date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)
 * 1815
 * 24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (d. 1898)
 * 16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (d. 1895)
 * May - William Lucas Collins, author (d. 1887)
 * 21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (d. 1859)
 * 13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (d. 1885)
 * 1816
 * 3 June - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876)
 * 11 June - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
 * 16 August - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff
 * date unknown
 * Huw Derfel, poet and historian (d. 1890)
 * Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
 * Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
 * 1817
 * 16 August - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic
 * 1 November - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (d. 1885)
 * 1818
 * 11 January - Daniel Silvan Evans, lexicographer (d. 1903)
 * 18 December - David Davies (Llandinam), industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1890)
 * 1819
 * 4 November - Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (d. 1894)
 * 15 November - Arthur Wynn Williams, physician (d. 1886)

Deaths

 * 1810
 * 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist (b. 1739)
 * 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (b. 1729)
 * 1811
 * 25 September - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (b. 1724)
 * 1812
 * 13 March - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (b. 1744)
 * 1813
 * 23 March - Princess Augusta, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and mother of Caroline, the Princess of Wales (b. 1737)
 * 17 April - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer
 * date unknown - Jane Cave, poet (b. 1754)
 * 1814
 * 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator (b. 1733)
 * 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor (b. 1742)
 * 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Welsh Bible pioneer (b. 1755)
 * 1815
 * 1816
 * 29 June - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher (b. 1738)
 * 1817
 * 16 January - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal (b. 1736)
 * 27 March - Josiah Boydell, artist (b. 1752)
 * 17 July - William Williams of Llandygly (b. 1738)
 * 31 July - Benjamin Hall, industrialist (b. 1778)
 * date unknown - David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
 * 1818
 * 12 September - John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd), poet (b. 1742)
 * 1819
 * 31 January - Thomas Bevan, missionary (b.c.1796)
 * 8 February - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanist (b. 1768)
 * 25 June - John Abel, minister (b. 1770)
 * 6 November - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (b. 1796)