1814 in Wales

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.
3 January - Lampeter is granted its town charter.
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. Thomas Heslop of Jamaica is killed; a local landowner, Beynon, is found guilty and fined one shilling.
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*Sydenham Edwards founds The Botanical Register.
*The Admiralty re-locates from Milford Haven to Paterchurch, resulting in the founding of Pembroke Dock.
*Journalist and preacher Elijah Waring settles at Neath.