1830 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1830 to Wales and its people.

← 1829 1828 1827 1826 1825 1830 in Wales → 1831 1832 1833 1834 1835
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s 1850s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1830 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• February 23 - William Carey becomes Bishop of St Asaph.
• April 23 - John Montgomery Traherne marries Charlotte Louisa Talbot, daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot 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
• Benjamin Jones (PA Môn) - Athrawiaeth Bedydd (1830)
• Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court

Music

• Thomas Griffiths (Tau Gimel) - Casgliad o Hymnau

Births

• January 23 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (d. 1861)
• April 22 - Sarah Emily Davies, educator (d. 1921)[3]
• May - Richard Davies (Tafolog), poet and critic (d. 1904)
• May 25 - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (d. 1877)

Deaths

• 12 January - Owen Davies, 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 - John Howell (Ioan ab Hywel or Ioan Glandyfroedd), poet

References

1. Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review. 1860. p. 518.
2. Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa. 1953.
3. 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.
4. 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.