This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute (until 16 November) Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess
Events 1 January - The first weekly newspaper in Welsh is published, when Seren Gomer is founded by Joseph Harris (Gomer), a Baptist minister in Swansea. 3 January - Lampeter is granted its town charter. February - Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000. May - Caernarvon and Anglesey Hospital is founded. Summer solstice - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg) declaims his poem "Heddwch" from the Logan Stone in the presence of the Gorsedd of Morgannwg, at the "second Assemblage" 10 September - The last recorded fatal duel in Wales is fought at Adpar, Newcastle Emlyn. Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling. date unknown Sydenham Edwards founds The Botanical Register. The Admiralty re-locates from Milford Haven to Paterchurch, resulting in the founding of Pembroke Dock. Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.
Arts and literature New books John Jones - Natur a Chyneddfau Gweddi (2nd edition)
Music Thomas William - Perl Mewn Adfyd
Births January - George Grant Francis, philanthropist (d. 1882) 29 January - Edward William Thomas, composer (d. 1892) 5 March - Joseph Edwards, sculptor (d. 1882) 16 June - Robert Davies (Cyndeyrn), composer (d. 1867) date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist (d. 1903)
Deaths 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80? 23 April - Richard Jones, clergyman and writer, 57 3 May - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71 26 September - Owen Jones, antiquary and founder of the Gwyneddigion Society, 73 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58 16 November - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70
See also 1814 in Ireland
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