1824 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – vacant
• Princess of Wales – vacant

  Events

• 8 September – The Society of Cymmrodorion sponsors a major eisteddfod at Welshpool.
• 18 December – William Chambers inherits the Stepney estate.
• The first gasometer in Wales is built at Greenfield, Flintshire.
• William Davies Evans develops the Evans Gambit.
• Major repairs to Bangor Cathedral are begun.
• Two new furnaces are erected at the Dyffryn ironworks by Anthony Hill.
• Approximate date of construction of the "leat" at Loggerheads, Denbighshire, used in the local lead mining industry.

  Arts and literature

New books

• T. G. Cumming – Description of the Iron Bridges of Suspension now erecting over the Strait of Menai at Bangor and over the River Conway
• David Davis – Telyn Dewi
• Benjamin Jones – An Elegy on the death of Benjamin B. Jones, the eldest surviving child of B. Jones of Holyhead
• Welsh Minstrelsy: Containing the Land beneath the Sea

  Music

• Seren Gomer

  Births

• 17 February - James Crichton-Stuart, politician
• March - Isaac D. Seyburn, Welsh-born merchant captain and naval officer
• 17 April - John Basson Humffray, political reformer in Australia
• 24 July – Robert Jones Derfel, poet
• 15 December - Morgan Thomas, Welsh-born Australian surgeon and philanthropist
• date unknown - David James Jenkins, shipowner and politician

  Deaths

• 1 February - John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician and soldier, 64
• 18 April – Edward Jones, harpist, 72
• 30 July – David Howell, American jurist of Welsh descent, 77
• 24 August – Thomas Parry, Chennai merchant, 56
• November – William Moses, poet, 82
• 24 December - John Downman, artist, 74