1828 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1828 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - vacant
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- 19 June - The Llanelly Dock is established by Act of Parliament.[1]
- September - Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, visits the eisteddfod at Denbigh, making it the first to receive a royal visit.[2]
- The Saundersfoot Railway and Harbour Company is formed.
- An iron suspension bridge is built to link South Stack with Holy Island, Anglesey.
- David Owen (Brutus) becomes editor of the periodical Lleuad yr Oes at Aberystwyth.
Arts and literature
New books
- Ellis Evans - Unoliaeth a Gweledigaeth yr Eglwys, sef, Llythyr Cymanfa Cefn Mawr
- T. J. Llewelyn Prichard - The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shon Catti, descriptive of life in Wales; interspersed with poems
- David Saunders (Dafydd Glan Teifi) - Awdl ar Fordaith yr Apostol Paul
- John Thomas - Telyn y Cantorion
- John Walters - An English and Welsh Dictionary
- Thomas Wiliam - Cwyn yr Unig
Music
- William Owen (Gwilym Ddu Glan Hafren) - Y Caniedydd Crefyddol (collection of hymn tunes)
Births
- 30 January - John David Jenkins, philanthropist (d. 1876)
- 4 March - Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys), clergyman and writer (d. 1870)
- 13 March - Thomas Morgan Thomas, missionary (d. 1884)
- 6 May - Sir Hugh Rowlands, soldier (d. 1909)
- 4 June - David Thomas (Dewi Hefin), poet (d. 1909)
- 23 September - Charles James Watkin Williams, politician (d. 1884)
- 30 October - Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford, lawyer and statesman (d. 1911)
- 13 December - David Lewis Wooding, genealogist (d. 1891)
- date unknown
- John Richard Hughes, evangelist (d. 1893)
- John Pryce, clergyman and writer (d. 1903)
Deaths
- 19 February - Thomas Jones (Y Bardd Cloff), 59
- 29 March - Griffith Rowlands, surgeon, 65
- 12 May - Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist, 75
- September - William Madocks, landowner, 55
- 29 December - Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, 67
- date unknown
- Edward Charles (Siamas Gwynedd), writer, 70?
- Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet, politician
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References
- Donald J. Grant (31 October 2017). Directory of the Railway Companies of Great Britain. Troubador Publishing Ltd. p. 322. ISBN 978-1-78803-768-6.
- Thomas Griffith (1830). The Gwyneddion; Or an Account of the Royal Denbigh Eisteddfod ... September, 1828; ...: With ... Prize Essays and Poems ... Griffith. pp. 26.
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