1825 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1825 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – vacant
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 2 January – The square-rigged transatlantic ocean liner Diamond strikes Sarn Badrig in Cardigan Bay and sinks.
- The first public wharves are built at Portmadoc.
- Rails for the Stockton and Darlington Railway (opened 27 September) are made at Ebbw Vale.
- Publication of Seren Gomer moves to Carmarthen.
- Sir Thomas Foley becomes an admiral.
Arts and literature
New books
- John Brickdale Blakeway and Hugh Owen – A History of Shrewsbury
- John Davies (Brychan) – Y Gog
- Felicia Hemans – The Forest Sanctuary
- Peter Bailey Williams – Tragwyddol Orphwysfa'r Saint
Music
- Jedediah Richards – Diddanwch y Pererinion
Births
- 15 January – Eleazar Roberts, writer and musician (d. 1912)
- 25 January – Robert Piercy, civil engineer (d. 1894)
- 7 June – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist of Anglo-Welsh parentage (d. 1900)
Deaths
- 12 February – John Humffreys Parry, antiquary, 39 (in a tavern brawl)
- 24 February – Thomas Bowdler, editor, 70
- 16 April – Hugh Jones (Maesglasau), hymn-writer, 75
- 2 May – Michael Hughes, industrialist, 72
- 9 June – Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist, 81
- 10 August – Joseph Harris (Gomer), Baptist minister, poet and editor, 52
- 19 September – Sir Thomas Stepney, 9th Baronet, groom of the bedchamber to Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany and last of his line, 65