1827 in Wales

Incumbents

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

  Events

• 1 March – Official opening of St David's College, Lampeter. Llewelyn Lewellin becomes its first principal, with Alfred Ollivant as vice-principal.
• 25 April – Sir Stapleton Cotton is created Viscount Combermere.
• 6 November – The Welsh-language journal, Baner y Groes, is launched for the first time; it would be revived in 1854.
• date unknown
• *The nephew of the last Viscount Bulkeley obtains permission, by royal licence, to take the name Sir Richard Bulkeley Williams-Bulkeley.
• *Construction work begins on Marble Arch, designed by Welsh architect John Nash and erected in front of Buckingham Palace in London.
• *A source of manganese is discovered at Y Rhiw.

  Arts and literature

New books

• Robert Davies – Diliau Barddas
• John Jones – An Explanation of the Greek Article

  Music

• Peroriaeth Hyfryd

  Births

• 6 June – Hugh Robert Hughes, genealogist
• 17 September - Joseph David Jones, composer
• 27 October – Joseph Tudor Hughes, harp prodigy
• 18 November – Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, Alpinist
• date unknown - Griffith Arthur Jones, clergyman

  Deaths

• 10 January – John Jones, Unitarian minister and writer, about 60
• 25 January – John Evans, Baptist minister and writer, 59
• 12 May – David Richards, poet, 76
• 27 May – Maria Bailey, wife of Sir Joseph Bailey
• 3 July – David Davis, minister and poet, 82
• 22 July – William Aubrey, engineer, supervisor of Cyfarthfa ironworks, 68
• 11 August – Anthony Bushby Bacon, industrialist, about 55
• date unknown - Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet