Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• April 21 - Charles Kemble, Brecon-born brother of Sarah Siddons, makes his first appearance on the London stage as Malcolm in Macbeth.
• Richard Crawshay buys out Anthony Bacon to become sole proprietor of Cyfarthfa ironworks.
• Completion of the Pontypridd to Cardiff section of the Glamorganshire Canal.
• Richard Hill is accused by the owners of the Glamorganshire Canal of improperly taking water from the Taff river which for his Plymouth ironworks.
• Mumbles Lighthouse is built.
• Henry Paget commands the 80th Foot in Flanders.

Arts and literature

New books

• Iolo Morganwg - Poems Lyric and Pastoral
• Hester Thrale - British Synonymy: or an attempt at regulating the choice of words in familiar conversation
• Peter Williams - Gwreiddyn y Mater

Births

• May 7 - Rees Howell Gronow, memoirist (d. 1865)
• November 3 - David Thomas, industrialist (d. 1882)
• date unknown
• Evan Davies (Eta Delta), Independent minister (d. 1855)
• Thomas Jenkyn, theologian (d. 1858)

Deaths

• January 22 - John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, MP and heir of the Marquess of Bute, 26
• ?August - Sackville Gwynne, landowner, 43?
• August 19 - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet, soldier and politician, 76
• October 1 - David William, hymn-writer, 74
• Hon. William Paget, MP for Anglesey, 25?