“1814 in Wales”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.

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.^[1]

3 January - Lampeter is granted its town charter.^[2]

February - Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his mineral rights at Cyfarthfa to Richard Crawshay for £95,000.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5]
Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.

Deaths

12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?

12 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

References

1. ^{{cite book|author=John Graham Jones|title=The History of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=goevBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128|date=15 November 2014|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-1-78316-169-0|pages=128}}
2. ^{{cite book|title=Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XyZDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA461|year=1837|pages=461}}
3. ^{{cite book|author=Alan Birch|title=Economic History of the British Iron and Steel Industry|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XVP-AQAAQBAJ&pg=PA81|date=5 November 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-61723-2|pages=81}}
4. ^{{cite web|title=About Adpar |work=Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar |url=http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar |accessdate=2012-02-11 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008070817/http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar |archivedate=2009-10-08 |df= }}
5. ^{{cite book|author=Charles George Harper|title=Gloucester to Milford Haven|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=emw7AQAAMAAJ|year=1905|publisher=Chapman & Hall}}
6. ^{{cite book|title=Catalogue of Welsh Books, Books on Wales, and Books by Welshmen, A.D. 1800-1862, at Glan Aber, Chester|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nZVaAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA48|year=1870|pages=48}}
7. ^{{cite web|title=William, Thomas (1761-1844)|work=Welsh Biography Online|url=http://wbo.llgc.org.uk/en/s-WILL-THO-1761.html|accessdate=2012-02-11|publisher=National Library of Wales|year=2009}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVS-ROB-1814|title=DAVIES, ROBERT (Cyndeyrn; 1814-1867), musician|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|author=Robert David Griffith|access-date=4 December 2018}}

1 : 1814 in the United Kingdom

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