Incumbents

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

Events

• June 20 - Creation of The Kidwelly and Llanelli Canal and Tramroad Company.
• October 1 - Balloonist James Sadler flies over the north Wales coastline in an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Irish Sea.
• December 30 - A brig, the Fortune, is wrecked on The Smalls, Pembrokeshire, with the loss of 11 lives.
• Rioting occurs at Nefyn over enclosures.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley stays at Nantgwyllt in the Elan Valley.
• Opening of:
• Brecon and Monmouthshire Canal between Newport and Brecon.
• Aberdare branch of Glamorganshire Canal.

Arts and literature

New books

• Felicia Hemans - The Domestic Affections and Other Poems
• Benjamin Millingchamp - A Sermon preached at St. Peter's Church, Carmarthen, on Thursday, July 4th, 1811
• The New Flora Britannica (with illustrations by Sydenham Teak Edwards)

Music

Births

• January 6 - Catherine Glynne, future wife of William Gladstone (d. 1900)
• February 3 - Robert Elis (Cynddelw), poet and lexicographer (d. 1875)
• April 3 - Henry Richard, pacifist politician (d. 1888)
• May 19 - Lady Charlotte Guest, translator and philanthropist (d. 1895)

Deaths

• January 15 - Theophilus Jones, historian, 52
• March 13 - Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge, 77