1810 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

  Events

• 3 March - Launch of the Carmarthen Journal, the oldest surviving newspaper in Wales.
• 14 April - James Henry Cotton marries Mary Anne, daughter of Bishop Majendie.
• 27 September - Thomas Picton serves with distinction under Wellington at the Battle of Bussaco.
• 24 October - The foundation stone of the Moel Famau Jubilee Tower is laid.
• date unknown
• *Walter Coffin takes a mining lease on land at Dinas Rhondda.
• *Hafod Copperworks opens in the Lower Swansea valley.
• *Artist Charles Norris settles in Tenby.
• *Writer Thomas Love Peacock settles in Maentwrog.
• *Jonesville, North Carolina, is founded as Martinsborough; the name is later changed in honour of Hardy Jones.

  Arts and literature

New books

• The Beauties of England and Wales, vol. XI
• Corff y Gainc
• Dafydd Ddu Eryri - Corph y Gaingc
• Richard Fenton - Historical Tour through Pembrokeshire
• Ann Hatton - Cambrian Pictures

  Births

• 3 January - John Orlando Parry, actor, musician and songwriter
• 12 January - John Dillwyn Llewelyn, botanist and pioneer photographer
• 15 January - John Evan Thomas, sculptor
• 19 January - John Jones, poet and architect
• 24 January - Thomas Jones, Methodist missionary
• 4 August - Dan Jones, Mormon missionary
• Thomas Jones, librarian

  Deaths

• 10 March - George Morgan, American merchant of Welsh parentage, 67
• April - Isaac Davis, advisor to the Hawaiian royal family
• 3 April - Thomas Edwards, poet and dramatist, 71
• 27 June - Richard Crawshay, industrialist, 70
• 12 August - David Jones, Church of England priest who was supportive of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism, 74