1818 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1818 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

31 March - Joseph Tregelles Price and his partners take out a new lease on Neath Abbey ironworks.
June - In the United Kingdom general election:
Samuel Homfray becomes MP for Stafford.
John Jones of Ystrad fails to win Carmarthen.
Berkeley Thomas Paget, MP for Anglesey, retires from Parliament.
John Edwards becomes MP for Glamorganshire.
August - John Jenkins (Ifor Ceri), parson of Kerry, and Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, agree "to make an attempt to rekindle the bardic skill and ingenuity of the principality ... by holding eisteddfodau in different places in the four provinces".
date unknown
Richard Fothergill retires from his role in managing the Tredegar ironworks with Samuel Homfray. The Sirhowy Ironworks, previously run by Fothergill, is leased to Messrs. Harford of Ebbw Vale.
The first slate quarry on the site of what will become Oakeley quarry in Blaenau Ffestiniog (which will be the world's largest underground slate mine) is begun when Samuel Holland, a Liverpool merchant, leases land near Rhiwbryfdir farm from the landlords, the Oakeley family of Plas Tan y Bwlch.
Joseph Harris (Gomer) re-founds the periodical Seren Gomer.
John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) becomes landlord of the King's Head in Ludgate Street, London. His tavern becomes a meeting place for the London Welsh.

Poet Felicia Hemans effectively separates from her husband, who goes to live in Rome for his health.

Nicholas Carlisle - A Concise Description of the Endowed Grammar Schools in England and Wales
Charles Norris - A Historical Account of Tenby