1815 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1815 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• 23 January - John Scandrett Harford inherits the family estates on the death of his father.
• 28 March - Opening of the British School for boys at Newport.
• 12 April - Admiral Thomas Foley is knighted.
• 23 May - John Luxmore replaces William Cleaver as Bishop of St Asaph.
• May or June - Bryn Oer Tramway opens in South Wales.
• 18 June - Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey, famously loses a leg at the Battle of Waterloo. General Thomas Picton is killed in the same battle.
• A twice-weekly boat service between Cardiff and Bristol is established.

Arts and literature

New books

• Walter Davies - General View of the Agriculture and Domestic Economy of South Wales
• Richard Fenton - Memoirs of an Old Wig
• Thomas Love Peacock - Headlong Hall (anonymous; dated 1816)
• David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr) - Barddoniaeth Gristianogawl

Births

• 24 January - Thomas Gee, publisher (died 1898)
• 16 April - Henry Austin Bruce, 1st Baron Aberdare (died 1895)
• May - William Lucas Collins, author (died 1887)
• 2 June - John Deffett Francis, painter and art collector (died 1901)
• 21 November - John Bowen, Bishop of Sierra Leone (died 1859)
• 13 December - Thomas Rees, Congregational minister (died 1885)
• date unknown - Thomas Gruffydd, harpist (died 1887)

Deaths

• 5 March - Sir Stephen Glynne, 8th Baronet, 34
• 24 April - John Lloyd, naturalist, 65
• 18 June - Thomas Picton, soldier, 56
• date unknown - Edward Edwards, Royal Navy officer of Welsh parentage, 73