1826 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1800s; 1810s; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1826 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1826 to Wales and its people.

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30 January - Opening of the Menai Suspension Bridge, designed by Thomas Telford.^[1]
1 July - Opening of Telford's Conwy Suspension Bridge.
Wrexham Maelor Hospital's predecessor founded.
The Calvinistic Methodist "connexion" produces its Constitutional Deed. It incorporates all property (such as chapels) as the property of the connexion as a whole.

Daniel Evans (Daniel Ddu o Geredigion) - Golwg ar Gyflwr yr Iddewon, Cerdd^[2]
James Humphreys - Observations on the Actual State of the English Laws of Real Property, with the outlines of a Code

24 May - John Parry (Bardd Alaw) is given a benefit concert by the Society of Cymmrodorion.

April - Ned Turner, prize-fighter, 34
May (approximate) - Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda, 70^[4]
18 December - Iolo Morganwg, poet and antiquary, 79
28 December - Nathaniel Williams, theologian and hymn-writer, 84

^ Strait MENAI (1832). The Tourists' Guide to the Shores of the Menai Straits ... With a Full ... Account of the Suspension Bridge; by J. Pring, etc. Chronicle Office. p. 20.
^ Daniel EVANS (called Daniel Ddu o Geredigion.) (1826). Golwg ar Gyflwr yr Iddewon Cerdd. p. 3.
^ The Law Times. Office of The Law Times. 1908. p. 267.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Griffiths, Richard". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 April 2019.