1822 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1800s; 1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1822 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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

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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.^[1]
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.

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 – , minister, teacher and poet (d. 1900)
25 September - William Bloomfield Douglas, colonial governor (d. 1906)
4 October - Charles Williams-Wynn, politician (d. 1896)^[2]
27 October – (Aneurin Fardd), writer (d. 1904)
15 December – Edward Stephen (Tanymarian), musician (d. 1885)
22 December - John Roberts (Ieuan Gwyllt), musician and minister (d. 1877)

30 March – , poet, 62
22 May - Samuel Homfray, industrialist, 59
5 June
- (near Durham) - Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 64
- , theologian, 59
25 September - John Henry Bowen, American politician of Welsh descent, 42
22 December^[3] Sarah Wesley, widow of Charles Wesley, 96^[4]^[5]

^ Jones, Eirian. War of the Little Englishman, Lolfa, 2007
^ "Death of Charles Watkins Williams-Wynn". The Montgomery County Times and Shropshire and Mid-Wales Advertiser. 2 May 1896. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
^ Charles Wesley timeline
^ Cheetham, J. Keith (2003). On the Trail of John Wesley. Edinburgh: Luath Press. pp. 95–97. ISBN 1-84282-023-0.
^ Barry, Joseph (2010). Temperley, Nicholas; Banfield, Stephen (eds.). Music and the Wesleys. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. pp. 141–146. ISBN 978-0-252-07767-8.