1827 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1827 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – vacant
- Princess of Wales – vacant
Events
- 1 March – Official opening of St David's College, Lampeter. Llewelyn Lewellin becomes its first principal, with Alfred Ollivant as vice-principal.
- The nephew of the last Viscount Bulkeley obtains permission to take the name Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley.
- Sir Stapleton Cotton is created Viscount Combermere.
- Welsh architect John Nash designs Marble Arch in London.
Arts and literature
New books
- Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) – Diliau Barddas
- John Jones – An Explanation of the Greek Article
Music
Peroriaeth Hyfryd (collection of hymns including Caersalem by Robert Edwards)
Births
- 6 June – Hugh Robert Hughes, genealogist (d. 1911)
- 17 September - Joseph David Jones, composer (d. 1870)
- 27 October – Joseph Tudor Hughes (Blegwryd), harp prodigy (d. 1841)
- 18 November – Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, Alpinist (d. 1913)
- date unknown - Griffith Arthur Jones, clergyman (d. 1906)
Deaths
- 10 January – John Jones, Unitarian minister and writer
- 12 May – David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr), poet, 76
- 27 May – Maria Bailey, wife of Sir Joseph Bailey
- 3 July – David Davis (Castellhywel), minister and poet, 82
- 22 July – William Aubrey, supervisor of Cyfarthfa ironworks, 68
- 11 August – Anthony Bushby Bacon, former industrialist
- date unknown (in Paris) – Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet, ±66
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