1823 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1823 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – vacant
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 13 January - Edward Paget, former MP for Caernarvon, is appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India.
- 23 January – In Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula, William Buckland discovers the "Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial (first discovered on 21 December last).[1]
- February
- John Frost is sentenced to six months in prison for a libel against the town clerk of Newport.
- Mercy Whitney describes the burial, in Hawaii, of the infant son of Isaac and Elizabeth Peke Davis: "A regular procession of two and two followed the corpse. Going into the fort in which the grave was dug seemed like entering a burying ground, more so than anything I have witnessed since I left America."[2]
- 4 March - Llanuwchllyn-born John Richards is elected to the United States Congress.
- 26 March – The packet ship Alert sinks off The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey, with the loss of a hundred lives.
- Summer – Stanley Embankment completed by Thomas Telford carrying the Holyhead road between Anglesey and Holy Island.
- A major eisteddfod is held at Mold.
- The Welsh Literary Society of Brecon is established by Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc).
- The Presbyterian Church of Wales draws up a confession of faith and becomes a separate body.
- The Caergwrle Bowl, a decorated Middle Bronze Age artefact, is discovered.
Arts and literature
New books
- Felicia Hemans – The Siege of Valencia
- Huw Morys – Eos Ceiriog, sef casgliad o bêr ganiadau Huw Morus (posthumous, ed. Walter Davies)[3]
- Ioan Siencyn – Casgliad o Ganiadau Difyr (posthumous)
Music
- David Charles – Hymnau ar Amrywiol Achosion (hymns)
- John Ellis – Eliot (hymn tune)
Births
- 8 January – Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist (d. 1913)
- 11 February – Llewellyn Turner, politician (d. 1903)
- March – Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid (d. 1905)
- 19 April - Anna Laetitia Waring, poet and hymn-writer (d. 1910)
- 17 November – Sir John Evans, archaeologist (d. 1908)
Deaths
- 26 February – John Philip Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 66
- 11 November - Sir Richard Richards, politician and judge, 71
- 28 November - Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford, landowner, 79
- 30 November – William Joseph Williams, American painter of Welsh parentage, 64
- 4 December – John Ryland Harris (Ieuan Ddu), printer, 20
References
- ^ Aldhouse-Green, Stephen (October 2001). "Great Sites: Paviland Cave". British Archaeology (61). Retrieved 16 July 2010.
- ^ Hawaii's Russian Adventure: A New Look at Old History By Peter R. Mills. Page 141
- ^ David Jenkins. "MORYS, HUW (Eos Ceiriog; 1622-1709), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 June 2018.