This article is about the particular significance of the year 1812 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, Earl of Uxbridge (until 13 March); Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey (from 28 April) 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 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 20 June - Creation of The Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal and Tramroad Company. Summer - Percy Bysshe Shelley stays at Nantgwyllt in the Elan Valley with his wife Harriet. September - Rioting occurs at Nefyn over enclosures. 17 September - The celebration of the completion of the embankment, later known as the 'Cob' in Porthmadog 30 December - A brig, the Fortune, is wrecked on The Smalls, Pembrokeshire, with the loss of 10 or 11 lives. 1 October - Balloonist James Sadler flies over the north Wales coastline in an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Irish Sea.Mark Davies: King of all balloons : the adventurous life of James Sadler, the first English aeronaut, Stroud, Gloucestershire : Amberley , Opening of: Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal between Newport and Brecon. Aberdare branch of Glamorganshire Canal.
Arts and literature New books English language Felicia Hemans - The Domestic Affections and Other Poems Benjamin Millingchamp - A Sermon preached at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, on Thursday, July 4, 1811 The New Flora Britannica (with illustrations by Sydenham Teak Edwards)
Welsh language Lewis Hopkin - Y Fêl Gafod Hugh Jones - Arwyrain Amaethyddiaeth
Music Owen Dafydd - Ballad of the Brynmorgan Explosion
Births 6 January - Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Ewart Gladstone (d. 1900) 3 February - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875) 3 April - Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888) 19 May - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)
Deaths 15 January - Theophilus Jones, historian, 52 13 March - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, 77 May - Thomas Owen, clergyman and translator, 62 27 November (bur.) - Jane Cave, poet, c. 58
See also 1812 in Ireland
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