1812 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1812 to Wales and its people.

← 1811 1810 1809 1808 1807 1812 in Wales → 1813 1814 1815 1816 1817
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1812 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• 20 June - Creation of The Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal and Tramroad Company.
• Summer - Percy Bysshe Shelley stays at Nantgwyllt in the Elan Valley with his wife Harriet.
• September - Rioting occurs at Nefyn over enclosures.[1]
• 17 September - The celebration of the completion of the embankment, later known as the 'Cob' in Porthmadog
• 30 December - A brig, the Fortune, is wrecked on The Smalls, Pembrokeshire, with the loss of 10 or 11 lives.[2]
• 1 October - Balloonist James Sadler flies over the north Wales coastline in an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Irish Sea.[3]
• Opening of:
  • Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal between Newport and Brecon.[4]
  • Aberdare branch of Glamorganshire Canal.

Arts and literature

English language

• Felicia Hemans - The Domestic Affections and Other Poems[5]
• Benjamin Millingchamp - A Sermon preached at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, on Thursday, July 4, 1811[6]
• The New Flora Britannica (with illustrations by Sydenham Teak Edwards)

Welsh language

• Lewis Hopkin - Y Fêl Gafod
• Hugh Jones - Arwyrain Amaethyddiaeth

Music

• Owen Dafydd - Ballad of the Brynmorgan Explosion

Births

• 6 January - Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Ewart Gladstone (d. 1900)
• 3 February - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)
• 3 April - Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888)[7]
• 19 May - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)

Deaths

• 15 January - Theophilus Jones, historian, 52
• 13 March - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, 77
• May - Thomas Owen, clergyman and translator, 62
• 27 November (bur.) - Jane Cave, poet, c. 58

References

1. Caernarvonshire (Wales). County Record Office (1968). Caernarvonshire records: the Caernarvonshire Record Office, twenty-one years 1947-1968: a catalogue of an exhibition held at Caernarvon, 19-26 October 1968. County Record Office (County Archivist).
2. "NAVAL INTELLIGENCE". Liverpool Mercury etc (80). 8 January 1813.
3. Mark Davies: King of all balloons : the adventurous life of James Sadler, the first English aeronaut, Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley [2015], ISBN 978-1-4456-5308-2
4. Charles Hadfield (1955). Introducing Canals: A Guide to British Waterways Today. Benn.
5. Tricia Lootens (March 1994). "Hemans and Home: Victorianism, Feminine "Internal Enemies", and the Domestication of National Identity". PMLA. Modern Language Association. 109 (Vol. 109, No. 2): 238–253. doi:10.2307/463119. JSTOR 463119.
6. Benjamin Millingchamp (1812). A Sermon Preached at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, on Thursday, July the 4th, 1811y. Printed and sold, by order of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Church Union in the Diocese of St. David's, by Jonathan Harris.
7. D. Ben Rees (2002). Vehicles of Grace and Hope: Welsh Missionaries in India, 1800-1970. William Carey Library. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-87808-505-7.