1825 in Wales

← 1824 1823 1822 1821 1820 1825 in Wales → 1826 1827 1828 1829 1830
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1825 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1825 to Wales and its people.

Incumbent[]

• Monarch - George IV

Events[]

• 2 January – The square-rigged transatlantic ocean liner Diamond strikes Sarn Badrig in Cardigan Bay and sinks.
• The first public wharves are built at Portmadoc.
• Rails for the Stockton and Darlington Railway (opened 27 September) are made at Ebbw Vale.
• Publication of Seren Gomer moves to Carmarthen.
• Sir Thomas Foley becomes an admiral.

Arts and literature[]

New books[]

English language[]

• John Brickdale Blakeway and Hugh Owen – A History of Shrewsbury^[1]
• Felicia Hemans – The Forest Sanctuary^[2]

Welsh language[]

• – Y Gog
• Peter Bailey Williams – Tragwyddol Orphwysfa'r Saint^[3]

Music[]

• – Diddanwch y Pererinion

Births[]

• 15 January – Eleazar Roberts, writer and musician (d. 1912)
• 25 January – , civil engineer (d. 1894)
• 7 June – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist of Anglo-Welsh parentage (d. 1900)

Deaths[]

• 12 February – John Humffreys Parry, antiquary, 39 (in a tavern brawl)
• 24 February – Thomas Bowdler, editor, 70
• 16 April – , hymn-writer, 75
• 2 May – Michael Hughes, industrialist, 72
• 9 June – Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist, 81
• 10 August – Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor, 52
• 12 September – , groom of the bedchamber to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and last of his line, 65^[4]

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