1817 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1817 to Wales and its people.

← 1816 1815 1814 1813 1812 1817 in Wales → 1818 1819 1820 1821 1822
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1817 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• March - A riot breaks out in Amlwch over food prices, and a ship carrying flour is prevented from leaving the harbour.[1]
• 22 July - Windham Sadler succeeds in crossing the Irish Sea by hot air balloon, landing near Holyhead.
• October John Gibson arrives in Rome to study sculpture with help from Antonio Canova.
• 6 December - Joseph Tregelles Price advertises Neath Abbey ironworks for sale.
• Lewis Weston Dillwyn retires from managing the Cambrian Pottery at Swansea.[2]
• Joseph Harris (Gomer) launches the unsuccessful periodical, Greal y Bedyddwyr.[3]
• Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis drafts the report on the Poor Law which brings its abuses to the attention of the public.
• Construction work commences on the first chapel in Tywyn.
• Approximate date - Britain's longest tramroad tunnel is opened at Pwll du near Blaenavon. The Pwll Du Tunnel is more than a mile (2400 m) in length. Begun as a mineral adit, at this time it carries a horse-drawn double track plateway of approximately 2 ft (600 mm) gauge carrying material for Blaenavon Ironworks; next summer it will be incorporated in Thomas Hill's Tramroad, connecting to the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal.[4]

Arts and literature

New books

• Catherine Hutton - The Welsh Mountaineer
• John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - Annerch Plant a Rhieni oddi ar farwolaeth William Thomas mab Lewis Thomas, Llanrwst

Music

• 14 July - Robert Williams composes the famous hymn-tune Llanfair (formerly named Bethel).

Births

• 3 March - Robert Thompson Crawshay, iron-master (died 1879)
• 6 May - John Prichard, architect (d. 1886)
• June - John Corbett, industrialist (died 1901)
• 16 June - Charles Herbert James, politician (died 1890)
• 16 August - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic (died 1870)
• 17 September - Hugh Humphreys, publisher (died 1896)
• 13 November - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (died 1885)
• 17 December - Erasmus Jones, novelist (died 1909)
• Thomas Thomas, chapel architect and minister (died 1888)

Deaths

• 16 January - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal, 80
• 27 March - Josiah Boydell, artist, 65
• 17 July - William Williams (antiquary), author, 79
• 31 July - Benjamin Hall, industrialist, 36
• date unknown - David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford

References

1. Thomas Tegg (1835). A Dictionary of Chronology ... Fourth edition [of "Chronology, or the Historian's Companion"], considerably enlarged. p. 300.
2. Friends of Blue; Wedgwood Museum (Barlaston, England) (1998). True blue: transfer printed earthenware. Friends of Blue.
3. John JENKINS (the Elder, of Hengoed.); J. EVANS (of Abercanaid.); Llewelyn JENKINS (1859). Hanes buchedd a gweithiau awdurol y diweddar John Jenkins ... Cyhoeddedig dan olygiaeth ei feibion John a Llewelyn Jenkins. A sylwadau ar ei nodweddiadau ... gan J. Evans. William Jones. pp. 105–.
4. van Laun, John. Early Limestone Railways. London: Newcomen Society. p. 50. ISBN 0-904685-09-8.