1830 in Wales

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1830 in the United Kingdom

1830 in Ireland

Other events of 1830

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1830 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• February 23 - William Carey becomes Bishop of St Asaph.
• April 23 - John Montgomery Traherne marries Charlotte Louisa Talbot, daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam.
• The Penydarren works at Merthyr Tydfil produce the rails for the world's first steam railway.
• The Plymouth ironworks produces over 12,000 tons of bar-iron, compared with 7,941 tons ten years earlier.
• Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed Treasurer of the Navy by the Duke of Wellington.
• The Cambrian Quarterly Magazine is founded.

Arts and literature

New books

• Ellis Evans - Anogaeth i Athrawon ac Athrawesau ein Hysgolion Sabothol
• Felicia Hemans - Songs of the Affections
• Benjamin Jones (PA Môn) - Athrawiaeth Bedydd (1830)
• Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court

Music

• Thomas Griffiths (Tau Gimel) - Casgliad o Hymnau

Births

• January 23 - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician (d. 1861)
• April 22 - Sarah Emily Davies, educator (d. 1921)
• May - Richard Davies (Tafolog), poet and critic (d. 1904)
• May 25 - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet (d. 1877)

Deaths

• June 26 - King George IV of the United Kingdom, formerly the second longest-serving Prince of Wales (1762-1820)