1822 in Wales

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley ; Thomas Assheton Smith
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – William Edward Powell
• 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 Crichton-Stuart, 2nd 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 – William Van Mildert
• Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

Events

• April - Launch of the Chester Cymmrodorion Society.
• 13 June - William Lloyd climbs Boorendo in the Himalayas.
• 12 August - St David's College is founded by Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's.
• Beginning of "", a dispute over enclosures in Pembrokeshire.
• Horse-drawn trams begin a passenger service between Tredegar and Newport.
• Sir Thomas Phillipps, 1st Baronet, establishes a private printing press in Broadway Tower on his estate at Middle Hill in Worcestershire.

Arts and literature

New books

• John Hughes - An Essay on the Ancient and Present State of the Welsh Language
• William Owen Pughe - Hu Gadarn
• John Montgomery Traherne - Lists of Knights of the Shire of Glamorgan
• ''Y Cymmrodor''

Music

• Stephen Llwyd - "Caerllyngoed"

Births

• 2 January – Basil Jones, bishop
• 2 March – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia
• 3 August – John Rhys Morgan, minister, teacher and poet
• 25 September - William Bloomfield Douglas, colonial governor
• 4 October - Charles Williams-Wynn, politician
• 27 October – Aneurin Jones, writer
• 15 December – Edward Stephen, musician
• 22 December - John Roberts, musician and minister

Deaths

• 30 March – David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri), poet, 62
• 9 April – William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island, 68
• 22 May – Samuel Homfray, industrialist, 59
• 5 June
• * - Stephen Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 64
• *George Lewis, theologian, 59
• 19 June – Poulett Somerset, soldier and politician, 53
• 25 September – John Henry Bowen, American politician of Welsh descent, 42
• 22 December – Sarah Wesley, widow of Charles Wesley, 96