1815 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1815 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
 * 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 Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (from 2 June)
 * 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 (until 15 May); John Luxmoore (from 8 June)
 * Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

Events

 * 23 January - John Scandrett Harford inherits the family estates on the death of his father.
 * 28 March - Opening of the British School for boys at Newport.
 * 12 April - Admiral Thomas Foley is knighted.
 * 23 May - John Luxmoore replaces William Cleaver as Bishop of St Asaph.
 * May or June - Bryn Oer Tramway opens in South Wales.
 * 18 June - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, famously loses a leg at the Battle of Waterloo. General Thomas Picton is killed in the same battle.
 * A twice-weekly boat service between Cardiff and Bristol is established.

English language

 * Walter Davies - General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of South Wales
 * Richard Fenton - Memoirs of an Old Wig
 * Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall (anonymous; dated 1816)

Welsh language

 * David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl

Music

 * Peter Roberts - The Cambrian Popular Antiquities of Wales

Births

 * 24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (died 1898)
 * 16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (died 1895)
 * May - William Lucas Collins, author (died 1887)
 * 2 June - John Deffett Francis, painter and art collector (died 1901)
 * 21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (died 1859)
 * 13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (died 1885)
 * date unknown
 * Thomas Gruffydd, harpist (died 1887)
 * Richard Kyrke Penson, architect (died 1886)

Deaths

 * 5 March - Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet, 34
 * 24 April - John Lloyd, naturalist and politician, 65
 * 15 May - William Cleaver, Bishop of St Asaph, 72/73
 * 18 June - Thomas Picton, soldier, 56 (killed at the Battle of Waterloo)
 * August - Robert Williams, farmer and poet, 70/71
 * date unknown - Edward Edwards, Royal Navy officer of Welsh parentage, 73