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

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.

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

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

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 ==Events==
-*[[February 23]] - [[William Carey]] becomes [[Bishop of St Asaph]].
+*[[February 23]] - [[William Carey (bishop)|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.