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{{Year in Wales header|1818}}This article is about the particular significance of the year 1818 to Wales and its people. Incumbents- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events- 31 March - Joseph Tregelles Price takes out a new lease on Neath Abbey ironworks.
- June - In the United Kingdom general election:
- Samuel Homfray becomes MP for Stafford.
- John Jones of Ystrad fails to win Carmarthen.
- Berkeley Thomas Paget, MP for Anglesey, retires from Parliament.
- John Edwards becomes MP for Glamorganshire.
- August - John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), parson of Kerry, and Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, agree "to make an attempt to rekindle the bardic skill and ingenuity of the principality ... by holding eisteddfodau in different places in the four provinces".[1]
- date unknown
- Richard Fothergill retires from his role in managing the Tredegar ironworks with Samuel Homfray.[2] The Sirhowy Ironworks, previously run by Fothergill, is leased to Messrs. Harford of Ebbw Vale.
- Joseph Harris (Gomer) re-founds the periodical Seren Gomer.
- John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) becomes landlord of the King's Head in Ludgate Street, London. His tavern becomes a meeting place for the London Welsh.[3]
- Felicia Hemans effectively separates from her husband, who goes to live in Rome for his health.[4]
Arts and literatureAwards- Evan Evans (Ieuan Glan Geirionydd) wins the chair at an eisteddfod in St Asaph.
New books- Nicholas Carlisle - A Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales
- Charles Norris - A Historical Account of Tenby
Music- Owen Williams - Egwyddorion Canu
Births- 11 January - Daniel Silvan Evans, lexicographer (d. 1903)[5]
- 10 February - David Lloyd Isaac, author (d. 1876)
- 27 February - Joseph Jenkins, the "Welsh Swagman", poet and diarist (d. 1898)
- 5 November - Edward James Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis (d. 1891)
- 16 November - Evan Lewis, Dean of Bangor (d. 1901)
- 29 November - Richard Davies, MP (d. 1896)
- 18 December - David Davies (Llandinam), industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1890)
- date unknown - George Augustus Frederick Paget, politician
Deaths- 21 March - Charles Morgan, Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India, 76
- 15 July - Robert Williams, hymn-writer, 35
- 12 September - John Thomas (Eos Gwynedd), poet, 76
- 17 September - Albemarle Bertie, 9th Earl of Lindsey, father of Lady Charlotte Guest, 74
References1. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-JENK-JOH-1770|title=JENKINS, JOHN (Ifor Ceri; 1770 - 1829), cleric and antiquary|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|author=David Gwenallt Jones|access-date=30 December 2018}}
2. ^{{cite book|author=Arthur Clark|title=The Story of Monmouthshire|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tx1UAAAAYAAJ|year=1962|publisher=C. Davies|isbn=978-0-9506618-0-3}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-JOH-1766|title=JONES, JOHN (‘Jac Glan-y-gors’: 1766 - 1821), satirical poet|author=David Rowland Hughes|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=1 January 2019}}
4. ^{{cite book|author1=Mrs. Hemans|author2=Lydia Howard Sigourney|title=Memoir of the Life and Writings of Felicia Hemans|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rtQ_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA55|year=1855|publisher=C. S. Francis|pages=55}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-EVAN-SIL-1818|title=EVANS, DANIEL SILVAN (1818 - 1903), cleric, translator, editor, and lexicographer|author=Richard Edmund Hughes|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=1 January 2019}}
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