1830 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1830 to Wales and its people.
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 – Peter Drummond-Burrell, 22nd Baron Willoughby de Eresby
- 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 – Sir John Owen, 1st Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
- Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie ; Christopher Bethell
- Bishop of Llandaff – Edward Copleston
- Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore William Carey
- Bishop of St Davids – John Jenkinson
Events
- February 23 - William Carey becomes Bishop of St Asaph.
- April 23 - John Montgomery Traherne marries Charlotte Louisa Talbot, daughter of Thomas Mansel Talbot of Margam.
- September 1 - In the 1830 United Kingdom general election, Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot is elected for Glamorganshire as a Whig; he will continue to sit for a Glamorganshire constituency until his death in 1890.
- The Penydarren works at Merthyr Tydfil produce the rails for the world's first steam railway.
- The Plymouth ironworks produces over 12,000 tons of bar-iron, compared with 7,941 tons ten years earlier.
- Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis is appointed Treasurer of the Navy by the Duke of Wellington.
Arts and literature
New books
- Ellis Evans - Anogaeth i Athrawon ac Athrawesau ein Hysgolion Sabothol
- Felicia Hemans - Songs of the Affections
- Benjamin Jones (PA Môn) - Athrawiaeth Bedydd
- Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - ''Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court''
Music
- Thomas Griffiths (Tau Gimel) - ''Casgliad o Hymnau''
Births
- 23 January - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician
- 22 April - Sarah Emily Davies, educator
- May - Richard Davies (Tafolog), poet and critic
- 25 May - Robert Williams (Trebor Mai), poet
- 2 June - Sir John Henry Puleston, banker and politician
- 12 December - Edwin Hughes, soldier, last survivor of the Charge of the Light Brigade
Deaths
- 12 January - Owen Davies, Wesleyan Methodist leader
- 31 January - John Luxmoore, Bishop of St Asaph, 64
- 26 June - King George IV of the United Kingdom, formerly the second longest-serving Prince of Wales, 67
- 9 July - Henry William Majendie, Bishop of Bangor
- 18 November - John Howell, poet
- 29 November - James Humphreys, lawyer, about 62