1814 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1814 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
- 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
- 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.
- date unknown
- *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.
Arts and literature
New books
- John Jones - ''Natur a Chyneddfau Gweddi''
Music
- Thomas William - ''Perl Mewn Adfyd''
Births
- January - George Grant Francis, philanthropist
- 29 January - Edward William Thomas, composer
- 5 March - Joseph Edwards, sculptor
- 16 June - Robert Davies, composer
- date unknown - Eliezer Pugh, philanthropist
Deaths
- 12 March - Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu), printer and translator, 80?
- 23 April - Richard Jones, clergyman and writer, 57
- 3 May - Thomas Coke, Methodist leader, 66
- 21 June - Sir Erasmus Gower, colonial governor, 71
- 26 September - Owen Jones, antiquary and founder of the Gwyneddigion Society, 73
- 5 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, Bible publishing pioneer, 58
- 16 November - John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 70