1810 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 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

  • January - Novelist Thomas Love Peacock first visits Maentwrog where he will settle for a time.
  • 3 March - Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.{{cite book|author=William Spurrell|title=Carmarthen and its neighbourhood|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qLkHAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA98|year=1860|pages=98}}
  • 14 April - James Cotton, precentor of Bangor Cathedral, marries Mary Anne, daughter of Henry Majendie, Bishop of Bangor.
  • 27 September - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.{{cite book|author=René Chartrand|title=Bussaco 1810: Wellington defeats Napoleon's Marshals|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0oGHCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT33|date=20 March 2013|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4728-0312-2|pages=33}}
  • 24 October - The foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.{{cite web|url=https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/local-news/booklet-unveils-past-jubilee-tower-2747176|title=Booklet unveils past of Jubilee Tower on Moel Famau|website=Daily Post|date=30 September 2010|author=Lois York|access-date=22 May 2018}}
  • date unknown
  • Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
  • Hafod Copperworks opens in the Lower Swansea valley.{{cite book|title=Engineering and Mining Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hkfnAAAAMAAJ|year=1882|publisher=Western & Company|page=261}}
  • Etcher Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
  • Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough; the name is later changed in honour of Hardy Jones (1747–1819).

Arts and literature

=New books=

==English language==

  • The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XI
  • Richard Fenton - Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire
  • Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures{{cite web|url=https://orieldavies.org/shop/products/cambrian-pictures|title=Cambrian Pictures|website=Oriel Davies Gallery|access-date=16 January 2025}}
  • Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan

==Welsh language==

  • Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corff y Gainc{{cite DWB|id=s-THOM-DAV-1759|title=Thomas, David (Dafydd Ddu Eryri; 1759-1822), man of letters and poet|author=Griffith Thomas Roberts|access-date=16 January 2025}}

Births

| last = Morris

| first = Richard Leslie

| author-link =

| contribution = Llewelyn, John Dillwyn

| year = 2004

| title = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| place = Oxford, England

| doi = 10.1093/ref:odnb/45563

| accessdate = 4 November 2015

| chapter-url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/45563

}}

  • 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (died 1873){{cite DWB|id=s-THOM-EVA-1810|title=Thomas, John Evan (1810-1873), sculptor|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=8 March 2019}}
  • 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (died 1869){{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-JOH-1810|title=Jones, John (Talhaiarn; 1810-1869), architect and poet|author=David Gwenallt Jones|access-date=8 March 2019}}
  • 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (died 1849){{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-THO-1810|title=Jones, Thomas (1810-1849), the first Calvinistic Methodist missionary on the Khasia Hills (Assam)|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=8 March 2019}}
  • 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (died 1862 in Utah)
  • date unknown - Thomas Jones, librarian (died 1875){{cite web|url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15097|title=Jones, Thomas (1810–1875)|last=Sutton|first=C. W.|author2=Crosby, Alan G. |work=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2004|accessdate=2009-01-27}}

Deaths

  • 10 March - George Morgan, American merchant of Welsh parentage, 67[https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3787921/obituary_col_george_morgan/ Obituary Col. George Morgan], The Pittsburgh Gazette, 6 Apr 1810, Friday, p. 2. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160131061303/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3787921/obituary_col_george_morgan/ Archived]
  • April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family{{cite book |title=Hawaiian Journal of History |hdl=10524/238 |chapter=The Cemetery for Foreigners |year=2000 |volume=34 |publisher=Hawaiian Historical Society |pages=63–67 |author=Robert C. Schmitt }}
  • 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71{{cite DWB |last1=Parry |first1=Sir Thomas |authorlink=Thomas Parry (author) |title=Edwards, Thomas (Twm o'r Nant; 1739–1810) |id=s-EDWA-THO-1739}}
  • 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70{{cite DWB |last1=Price |first1=Watkin William|title=Crawshay family, of Cyfarthfa, Glamorganshire, industrialists|id=s-CRAW-CYF-1739|access-date=29 August 2019}}
  • 12 August - David Jones, Church of England priest who was supportive of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 74{{cite DWB |last1=Roberts|first1=Gomer Morgan|title=Jones, David (1736-1810), Methodist cleric|id=s-JONE-DAV-1736|access-date=29 August 2019}}
  • 27 September - John Williams, barrister, 53{{cite DNB|wstitle=Williams, John (1757-1810)}}

See also

References

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