1824 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1824 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 Assheton Smith
 * 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 – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
 * 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

 * January – The construction of the "leat" or "leete" at Loggerheads, Denbighshire, used in the local lead mining industry, is first recorded.
 * 8 September – The Society of Cymmrodorion sponsors a major eisteddfod at Welshpool.
 * 18 December – William Chambers inherits the Stepney estate.
 * dates unknown
 * The first gasometer in Wales is built at Greenfield, Flintshire.
 * Chess William Davies Evans develops the Evans Gambit.
 * Major repairs to Bangor Cathedral are begun.
 * Two new furnaces are erected at the Dyffryn ironworks by Anthony Hill.

New books

 * T. G. Cumming – Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai at Bangor and over the River Conway
 * David Davis (Castellhywel) – Telyn Dewi
 * Benjamin Jones (P A Môn) – An Elegy on the death of Benjamin B. Jones, the eldest surviving child of B. Jones of Holyhead
 * Welsh Minstrelsy: Containing the Land beneath the Sea

Music

 * Seren Gomer (collection of hymns including Grongar by John Edwards)

Births

 * 17 February – James Crichton-Stuart, politician (d. 1891)
 * March – Isaac D. Seyburn, Welsh-born merchant captain and naval officer (d. 1895)
 * 17 April – John Basson Humffray, political reformer in Australia (d. 1891)
 * 24 July – Robert Jones Derfel, poet (d. 1905)
 * 15 December – Morgan Thomas, Welsh-born Australian surgeon and philanthropist (d. 1903)
 * date unknown – David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician (d. 1891)

Deaths

 * 1 February – John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician and soldier, 64
 * 18 April – Edward Jones, harpist ("Bardd y Brenin"), 72
 * 30 July – David Howell, American jurist of Welsh descent, 77
 * 24 August – Thomas Parry, Chennai merchant, 56 (cholera)
 * November – William Moses, poet, 82
 * 24 December – John Downman, artist, 74