:1814 in Wales

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{{Year in Wales header|1814}}

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

  • Bishop of BangorHenry Majendie{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 | page=292}}{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=305}}
  • Bishop of LlandaffRichard Watson{{cite book|author=John Henry James|title=A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff|publisher=Western Mail|year=1898|page=16}}
  • Bishop of St AsaphWilliam Cleaver{{cite book|title=The Church of the people and free church penny magazine|year=1859|page=179}}{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}
  • Bishop of St DavidsThomas Burgess{{cite book|author= Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher= University Press|year=1854|page=307}}{{cite book|title=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}{{cite book|title=The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3|author=George III (King of Great Britain)|publisher=University Press|year=1967|page=434}}{{cite web |title=Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas |url=https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA3174&pos=1 |website=The Royal Society |access-date=30 October 2020}}

Events

  • 1 January - The first weekly newspaper in Welsh is published, when Seren Gomer is founded by Joseph Harris (Gomer), a Baptist minister in Swansea.{{cite book|author=John Graham Jones|title=The History of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=goevBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|date=15 November 2014|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-1-78316-169-0|pages=128}}
  • 3 January - Lampeter is granted its town charter.{{cite book|title=Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XyZDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA461|year=1837|pages=461}}
  • February - Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.{{cite book|author=Alan Birch|title=Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XVP-AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA81|date=5 November 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-61723-2|pages=81}}
  • May - Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital is founded.
  • Summer solstice - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg) declaims his poem "Heddwch" from the Logan Stone in the presence of the Gorsedd of Morgannwg, at the "second Assemblage"
  • 10 September - The last recorded fatal duel in Wales is fought at Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn.{{cite web|title=About Adpar |work=Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar |url=http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar |accessdate=2012-02-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008070817/http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar |archivedate=2009-10-08 }} Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling.
  • date unknown
  • Sydenham Edwards founds The Botanical Register.
  • The Admiralty re-locates from Milford Haven to Paterchurch, resulting in the founding of Pembroke Dock.{{cite book|author=Charles George Harper|title=Gloucester to Milford Haven|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordgloucester02harpuoft|year=1905|publisher=Chapman & Hall}}
  • Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.

Arts and literature

=New books=

  • John Jones - Natur a Chyneddfau Gweddi (2nd edition){{cite book|title=Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nZVaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA48|year=1870|pages=48}}

=Music=

  • Thomas William - Perl Mewn Adfyd{{cite DWB|title=William, Thomas (1761-1844)|id=s-WILL-THO-1761|accessdate=2012-02-11|year=1959}}

Births

Deaths

  • 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?{{cite DWB|id=s-THOM-EVA-1733|title=Thomas, Evan (Ieuan Fardd Ddu; 1733-1814), printer and translator|author=Thomas Isfryn Jones|access-date=23 January 2020}}
  • 23 April - Richard Jones, clergyman and writer, 57{{cite DWB|id=s1-JONE-RIC-1757|title=Jones, Richard (1757?-1814), cleric and writer|author= Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=23 January 2020}}
  • 3 May - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66{{cite book|author=John Wesley Etheridge|title=The Life of the Rev. Thomas Coke, D.C.L.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vApOAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA449|year=1860|publisher=J. Mason|pages=449}}
  • 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71{{cite book|author1=James Stanier Clarke|author2=John McArthur|title=The Naval Chronicle: Volume 32, July-December 1814|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m437Tx8awa4C&pg=PA176|date=2 September 2010|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-108-01871-5|pages=176}}
  • 26 September - Owen Jones, antiquary and founder of the Gwyneddigion Society, 73
  • 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58{{cite DWB|id=s-CHAR-THO-1755|title=Charles, Thomas (1755-1814), Methodist cleric|author=John Roberts|year=1959|access-date=19 November 2021}}
  • 16 November - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70{{cite ODNB|first=Roland|last=Thorne|title=Stuart, John, first marquess of Bute (1744–1814)|id=64138}}

See also

References