1830s in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant

  Events

• 1830
• 1831
• 1832
• 1833
• 1834
• 1835
• 1836
• 1837
• 1838
• 1839

  Arts and literature

New books

• Charles James Apperley - The Chace, the Road, and the Turf
• Eliza Constantia Campbell - Tales about Wales
• John Evans - Hanes yr Iddewon
• Y Fwyalchen
• Felicia Hemans - Songs of the Affections
• Benjamin Jones - Athrawiaeth Bedydd
• Sir Samuel Rush Meyrick - Engraved Illustrations of Antient Arms and Armour, from the Collection at Goodrich Court
• Thomas Price - Hanes Cymru a Chenedl y Cymry o'r Cynoesoedd hyd at Farwolaeth Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, vol. 1
• William Williams - Drych Barddonol

  Music

• Thomas Griffiths - Casgliad o Hymnau
• David James - Myfyrdawd

  Births

• 1830
• *23 January - Thomas Lloyd-Mostyn, politician
• *22 April - Sarah Emily Davies, educator
• *May - Richard Davies, poet and critic
• *25 May - Robert Williams, poet
• 1831
• *20 December - William T. Davies, Governor of Pennsylvania
• 1832
• *5 January - Love Jones-Parry, politician and Patagonian settler
• *3 April - William Thomas, poet
• *25 September - John Ceiriog Hughes, poet
• 1833
• *date unknown
• **Richard Davies, poet
• **James James, harpist and composer
• 1834
• *16 October - Pryce Pryce-Jones, mail order entrepreneur
• *date unknown - William Thomas, minister
• 1836
• *30 January - Lewis Jones, Patagonian settler
• *5 July - Evan Herber Evans, minister
• *30 September - George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, industrialist
• *6 October - Allen Raine, novelist
• *20 October - Daniel Owen, novelist
• *date unknown - John Jones, poet
• 1837
• *5 August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, industrialist
• *6 September - Henry Thomas Edwards, preacher
• *22 September - Thomas Charles Edwards, minister, writer and first principal of the University of Wales
• *26 December - Sir William Boyd Dawkins, geologist
• *date unknown - William Bowen Rowlands, politician
• 1838
• *date unknown - Charles Gresford Edmondes, clergyman and teacher
• 1839
• *7 March - Ludwig Mond, German-born industrialist
• *24 September - John Neale Dalton, royal chaplain and tutor
• *date unknown - Sarah Jane Rees, writer

  Deaths

• 1830
• *26 June - King George IV of the United Kingdom, formerly the second longest-serving Prince of Wales
• 1831
• *7 January - Edward "Celtic" Davies, author, 74
• *8 June - Sarah Siddons, actress
• *13 August - Dic Penderyn, labourer
• 1834
• *11 August - William Crawshay I, industrialist
• *2 September - David Charles, hymn-writer
• 1835
• *13 May - John Nash, architect
• *3 June - William Owen Pughe, grammarian and lexicographer
• *date unknown - Robert Davies, poet
• 1836
• *22 November - Peter Bailey Williams, antiquarian
• 1837
• *19 February - Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's, 80
• 1838
• *14 March - Wyndham Lewis, MP, 57
• *19 July - Christmas Evans, preacher
• *26 December - Ann Hatton, novelist
• 1839
• *16 May - Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis