1814 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1790s; 1800s; 1810s; 1820s; 1830s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1814 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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

Incumbents

1 January - The first weekly newspaper in Welsh is published, when Seren Gomer is founded by Joseph Harris (Gomer), a Baptist minister in Swansea.
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.^[1] Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling.
Sydenham Edwards founds The Botanical Register.
The Admiralty re-locates from Milford Haven to Paterchurch, resulting in the founding of Pembroke Dock.
Lampeter is granted its town charter.
Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.

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

↑ "About Adpar". Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar. Archived from the original on 2009-10-08. Retrieved 2012-02-11.
↑ "William, Thomas (1761-1844)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. 2009. Retrieved 2012-02-11.

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