1822 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1822 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
 * Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley (until 3 June); Thomas Assheton Smith (from 18 July)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
 * 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
 * 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 – William Van Mildert
 * Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore
 * Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

Events

 * April - Launch of the Chester Cymmrodorion Society.
 * 13 June - William Lloyd climbs Boorendo in the Himalayas.
 * 12 August - St David's College (now the University of Wales, Lampeter) is founded by Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's.
 * Beginning of "Rhyfel y Sais Bach" ("War of the Little Englishman"), a dispute over enclosures in Pembrokeshire.
 * Horse-drawn trams begin a passenger service between Tredegar and Newport.
 * Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet, establishes a private printing press in Broadway Tower on his estate at Middle Hill in Worcestershire.

New books

 * John Hughes - An Essay on the Ancient and Present State of the Welsh Language
 * William Owen Pughe - Hu Gadarn
 * John Montgomery Traherne - Lists of Knights of the Shire of Glamorgan
 * Y Cymmrodor (first, unnumbered volume)

Music

 * Stephen Llwyd - "Caerllyngoed" (hymn tune)

Births

 * 2 January – Basil Jones, bishop (d. 1897)
 * 2 March – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia (d. 1898)
 * 3 August – John Rhys Morgan, minister, teacher and poet (d. 1900)
 * 25 September - William Bloomfield Douglas, colonial governor (d. 1906)
 * 4 October - Charles Williams-Wynn, politician (d. 1896)
 * 27 October – Aneurin Jones (Aneurin Fardd), writer (d. 1904)
 * 15 December – Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), musician (d. 1885)
 * 22 December - John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), musician and minister (d. 1877)

Deaths

 * 30 March – David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet, 62
 * 9 April – William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island, 68
 * 22 May – Samuel Homfray, industrialist, 59
 * 5 June
 * (near Durham) - Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 64
 * George Lewis, theologian, 59
 * 25 September – John Henry Bowen, American politician of Welsh descent, 42
 * 22 December – Sarah Wesley (née Gwynne), widow of Charles Wesley, 96