1814 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1790s; 1800s; 1810s; 1820s; 1830s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1814 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[]

1 January - The first weekly newspaper in Welsh is published, when Seren Gomer is founded by Joseph Harris (Gomer), a Baptist minister in Swansea.^[1]
3 January - Lampeter is granted its town charter.^[2]
February - Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.^[3]
May - Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital is founded.
Summer solstice - declaims his poem "Heddwch" from the Logan Stone in the presence of the Gorsedd of Morgannwg, at the "second Assemblage"
10 September - The last recorded fatal duel in Wales is fought at Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn.^[4] Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling.
date unknown
- Sydenham Edwards founds The Botanical Register.
- The Admiralty re-locates from Milford Haven to Paterchurch, resulting in the founding of Pembroke Dock.^[5]
- Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.

12 March - , printer and translator, 80?^[9]
23 April - Richard Jones, clergyman and writer, 57^[10]
3 May - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66^[11]
21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71^[12]
26 September - Owen Jones, antiquary and founder of the Gwyneddigion Society, 73
5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58
16 November - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70

^ John Graham Jones (15 November 2014). The History of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-78316-169-0.
^ Report. 1837. p. 461.
^ Alan Birch (5 November 2013). Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry. Routledge. p. 81. ISBN 978-1-136-61723-2.
^ "About Adpar". Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar. Archived from the original on 8 October 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
^ Charles George Harper (1905). Gloucester to Milford Haven. Chapman & Hall.
^ Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester. 1870. p. 48.
^ "William, Thomas (1761-1844)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. 2009. Retrieved 11 February 2012.
^ Robert David Griffith. "DAVIES, ROBERT (Cyndeyrn; 1814-1867), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
^ Thomas Isfryn Jones. "Thomas, Evan (Ieuan Fardd Ddu; 1733-1814), printer and translator". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Jones, Richard (1757?-1814), cleric and writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 January 2020.
^ John Wesley Etheridge (1860). The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, D.C.L. J. Mason. p. 449.
^ James Stanier Clarke; John McArthur (2 September 2010). The Naval Chronicle: Volume 32, July-December 1814. Cambridge University Press. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-108-01871-5.