1810 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1810 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
- Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
- Bishop of St Asaph – William Cleaver
- Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess
Events
- January - Novelist Thomas Love Peacock first visits Maentwrog where he will settle for a time.
- 3 March - Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.
- 14 April - James Cotton, precentor of Bangor Cathedral, marries Mary Anne, daughter of Henry Majendie, Bishop of Bangor.
- 27 September - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.
- 24 October - The foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.
- date unknown
- *Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
- *Hafod Copperworks opens in the Lower Swansea valley.
- *Etcher Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
- *Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough; the name is later changed in honour of Hardy Jones.
Arts and literature
New books
English language
- The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XI
- Richard Fenton - Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire
- Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures
- Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - ''History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan''
Welsh language
- Dafydd Ddu Eryri - ''Corff y Gainc''
Births
- 3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter
- 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer
- 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor
- 19 January - John Jones (Talhaiarn), poet and architect
- 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary
- 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary
- date unknown - Thomas Jones, librarian
Deaths
- 10 March - George Morgan, American merchant of Welsh parentage, 67
- April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family
- 3 April - Thomas Edwards, poet and dramatist, 71
- 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70
- 12 August - David Jones, Church of England priest who was supportive of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 74
- 27 September - John Williams, barrister, 53