1830 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1830 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 – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
 * 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 (until 20 November; Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (from 20 November)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney


 * Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie (until 9 July); Christopher Bethell (from 28 October)
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
 * Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore (until 31 January) William Carey (from 12 November)
 * Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson

Events

 * February 23 - William Carey becomes Bishop of St Asaph.
 * April 23 - John Montgomery Traherne marries Charlotte Louisa Talbot, daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam.
 * September 1 - In the 1830 United Kingdom general election, Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot is elected for Glamorganshire as a Whig; he will continue to sit for a Glamorganshire constituency until his death in 1890.
 * The Penydarren works at Merthyr Tydfil produce the rails for the world's first steam railway.
 * The Plymouth ironworks produces over 12,000 tons of bar-iron, compared with 7,941 tons ten years earlier.
 * Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed Treasurer of the Navy by the Duke of Wellington.

New books

 * Ellis Evans - Anogaeth i Athrawon ac Athrawesau ein Hysgolion Sabothol
 * Felicia Hemans - Songs of the Affections
 * Benjamin Jones (PA Môn) - Athrawiaeth Bedydd (1830)
 * Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court

Music

 * Thomas Griffiths (Tau Gimel) - Casgliad o Hymnau

Births

 * 23 January - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (d. 1861)
 * 22 April - Sarah Emily Davies, educator (d. 1921)
 * May - Richard Davies (Tafolog), poet and critic (d. 1904)
 * 25 May - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (d. 1877)
 * 2 June - Sir John Henry Puleston, banker and politician (d. 1908)
 * 12 December - Edwin Hughes ("Balaclava Ned"), soldier, last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade (d. 1927)

Deaths

 * 12 January - Owen Davies, Wesleyan Methodist leader
 * 31 January - John Luxmoore, Bishop of St Asaph, 64
 * 26 June - King George IV of the United Kingdom, formerly the second longest-serving Prince of Wales (1762–1820), 67
 * 9 July - Henry William Majendie, Bishop of Bangor
 * 18 November - John Howell (Ioan ab Hywel or Ioan Glandyfroedd), poet
 * 29 November - James Humphreys, lawyer, about 62