1823 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1823 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – vacant
• Princess of Wales – vacant

Events

• 13 January - Edward Paget, former MP for Caernarvon, is appointed Commander-in-Chief of British forces in India.
• 23 January – In Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula, William Buckland discovers the "Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial (first discovered on 21 December last).^[1]
• February
  • John Frost is sentenced to six months in prison for a libel against the town clerk of Newport.
  • Mercy Whitney describes the burial, in Hawaii, of the infant son of Isaac and Elizabeth Peke Davis: "A regular procession of two and two followed the corpse. Going into the fort in which the grave was dug seemed like entering a burying ground, more so than anything I have witnessed since I left America."^[2]
• 4 March - Llanuwchllyn-born John Richards is elected to the United States Congress.
• 26 March – The packet ship Alert sinks off The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey, with the loss of a hundred lives.
• Summer – Stanley Embankment completed by Thomas Telford carrying the Holyhead road between Anglesey and Holy Island.
• A major eisteddfod is held at Mold.
• The Welsh Literary Society of Brecon is established by Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc).
• The Presbyterian Church of Wales draws up a confession of faith and becomes a separate body.
• The Caergwrle Bowl, a decorated Middle Bronze Age artefact, is discovered.

Arts and literature

Births

• 8 January – Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist (d. 1913)
• 11 February – Llewellyn Turner, politician (d. 1903)
• March – Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid (d. 1905)
• 19 April - Anna Laetitia Waring, poet and hymn-writer (d. 1910)
• 17 November – Sir John Evans, archaeologist (d. 1908)

Deaths

• 26 February – John Philip Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 66
• 11 November - Sir Richard Richards, politician and judge, 71
• 28 November - Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford, landowner, 79
• 30 November – William Joseph Williams, American painter of Welsh parentage, 64
• 4 December – John Ryland Harris (Ieuan Ddu), printer, 20

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