1825 in Wales
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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]
References[]
- ^ John Burke (1837). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry; Or, Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland Etc. Henry Colburn. p. 512.
- ^ Charles Mahoney (21 December 2010). A Companion to Romantic Poetry. John Wiley & Sons. p. 80. ISBN 978-1-4443-9064-3.
- ^ National Library of Wales (1961). Annual Report ... Presented by the Council to the Court of Governors on the ... The Library. p. 25.
- ^ Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England) (1971). The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. p. 247.
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