1810s in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1810–1819 to Wales and its people.

Events

Arts and literature

New books

Thomas Charles - Biblical Dictionary, vol. 4 (1811)
Dafydd Ddu Eryri - (1810)
- - Richard Fenton A Tour in Quest of Genealogy (1811)
- Memoirs of an Old Wig (1815)
Joseph Harris (Gomer) - (1816)
- - Ann Hatton Cambrian Pictures (1810)
- Chronicles of an Illustrious House (1816)
Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 (1816)
Thomas Jones (Dinbych) - (1813)
William Owen Pughe - (translation of Milton's Paradise Lost) (1819)
David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - (1815)
John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd) - (1817)

Music

1811
- John James -
1817
- Robert Williams - (hymn tune, formerly named Bethel); Williams recorded that the tune was composed on 14 July of this year.

Births

1810
- 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)
- 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (d. 1873)
- 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (d. 1869)
- 24 January - Thomas Jones, missionary (d. 1849)
1811
- 14 January - Rowland Prichard, musician (d. 1887)
- 26 January - Roger Edwards, minister (d. 1886)
- 11 March - Thomas Jones (Glan Alun), poet (d. 1866)
- 11 July - William Robert Grove, inventor (d. 1896)
- date unknown - John Williams (Ab Ithel), antiquary (d. 1862)
1812
- 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)
- 19 May - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)
1813
- 30 June - Thomas Briscoe, translator (d. 1895)
- 1 August - William Ambrose (Emrys), poet (d. 1873)
- 10 October - William Adams, mining engineer (d. 1886)
- date unknown - John Edwards (Meiriadog), poet (d. 1906)
1814
- 5 March - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882)
- date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)
1815
- 24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (d. 1898)
- 16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (d. 1895)
- May - William Lucas Collins, author (d. 1887)
- 21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (d. 1859)
- 13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (d. 1885)
1816
- 3 June - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876)
- 11 June - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884)
- 16 August - Charles John Vaughan, dean of Llandaff and co-founder of University of Wales, Cardiff
- date unknown
  - Huw Derfel, poet and historian (d. 1890)
  - Edward Edwards (Pencerdd Ceredigion), musician (d. 1897)
  - Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888)
1817
- 16 August - Rowland Williams, theologian and academic
- 1 November - Henry Brinley Richards, composer (d. 1885)
1818
- 11 January - Daniel Silvan Evans, lexicographer (d. 1903)
- 18 December - David Davies (Llandinam), industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1890)
1819
- 4 November - Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor (d. 1894)
- 15 November - Arthur Wynn Williams, physician (d. 1886)

Deaths

1810
- 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist (b. 1739)
- 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (b. 1729)
1811
- 25 September - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (b. 1724)
1812
- 13 March - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge (b. 1744)
1813
- 23 March - Princess Augusta, daughter of Frederick, Prince of Wales and mother of Caroline, the Princess of Wales (b. 1737)
- 17 April - Thomas Edwards (Yr Hwntw Mawr), murderer
- date unknown - Jane Cave, poet (b. 1754)
1814
- 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator (b. 1733)
- 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor (b. 1742)
- 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Welsh Bible pioneer (b. 1755)
1815
1816
- 29 June - David Williams, Enlightenment philosopher (b. 1738)
1817
- 16 January - General Vaughan Lloyd, commander of the Woolwich Arsenal (b. 1736)
- 27 March - Josiah Boydell, artist (b. 1752)
- 17 July - William Williams of Llandygly (b. 1738)
- 31 July - Benjamin Hall, industrialist (b. 1778)
- date unknown - David Hughes, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford
1818
- 12 September - John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd), poet (b. 1742)
1819
- 31 January - Thomas Bevan, missionary (b.c.1796)
- 8 February - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanist (b. 1768)
- 25 June - John Abel, minister (b. 1770)
- 6 November - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (b. 1796)