1830 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1830 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents[]
- Monarch - George IV (until June 26), then William IV
Events[]
- February 23 - William Carey becomes Bishop of St Asaph.
- April 23 - John Montgomery Traherne marries Charlotte Louisa Talbot, daughter of of Margam.[1]
- The Penydarren works at Merthyr Tydfil produce the rails for the world's first steam railway.
- The Plymouth ironworks produces over 12,000 tons of bar-iron, compared with 7,941 tons ten years earlier.
- Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed Treasurer of the Navy by the Duke of Wellington.
Arts and literature[]
New books[]
- Ellis Evans - Anogaeth i Athrawon ac Athrawesau ein Hysgolion Sabothol[2]
- Felicia Hemans - Songs of the Affections
- - Athrawiaeth Bedydd (1830)
- Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court
Music[]
- - Casgliad o Hymnau
Births[]
- January 23 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (d. 1861)
- April 22 - Sarah Emily Davies, educator (d. 1921)[3]
- May - , poet and critic (d. 1904)
- May 25 - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (d. 1877)
Deaths[]
- 12 January - , Wesleyan Methodist leader
- 26 June - King George IV of the United Kingdom, formerly the second longest-serving Prince of Wales (1762–1820)
- 9 July - Henry William Majendie, Bishop of Bangor[4]
- 18 November - (Ioan ab Hywel or Ioan Glandyfroedd), poet
References[]
- ^ Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review. 1860. p. 518.
- ^ Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa. 1953.
- ^ Ann B. Murphy; Deirdre Raftery (3 March 2004). Emily Davies: Collected Letters, 1861-1875. University of Virginia Press. p. 9. ISBN 978-0-8139-2391-8.
- ^ Sylvanus Urban (1830). The Gentleman's Magazine, and Historical Chronicle, from July to December,1830. Volume C. (Being the Twenty-Third of New Series.) Part the Second. p. 274.
Categories:
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