1810 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1810 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• April 14 - James Henry Cotton marries Mary Anne, daughter of Bishop Majendie.
• September 27 - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.
• Foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.
• Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.
• Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
• Hafod Copperworks established in the Lower Swansea valley.
• Artist Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
• Writer Thomas Love Peacock settles in Maentwrog.
• The Merioneth Agricultural Society is founded.
• Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough.

Arts and literature

New books

• The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XI
• Corff y Gainc (anthology)
• Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corph y Gaingc
• Richard Fenton - Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire
• Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures

Music

Births

• 3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter (d. 1879)
• 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer (d. 1882)
• 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor (d. 1873)
• 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect (d. 1869)
• 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary (d. 1849 in India)
• 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary (d. 1862 in Utah)
• Thomas Jones, librarian (d. 1875)

Deaths

• April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family
• 3 April - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), poet and dramatist, 71
• 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70
• 12 August - David Jones, Baptist minister, 74