This article is about the particular significance of the year 1823 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales vacant
• Princess of Wales vacant

Events

• January In Paviland Cave on the Gower Peninsula, William Buckland discovers the "Red Lady of Paviland", the first identification of a prehistoric (male) human burial.^[1]
• February John Frost is sentenced to six months in prison for a libel against the town clerk of Newport.
• 26 March The packet ship Alert sinks off The Skerries, Isle of Anglesey, with the loss of a hundred lives.
• A major eisteddfod is held at Mold.
• The Welsh Literary Society of Brecon is established by Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc).
• The Calvinistic Methodists draw up a confession of faith.

Arts and literature

New books

• Felicia Hemans The Siege of Valencia
• Huw Morys Eos Ceiriog, sef casgliad o b r ganiadau Huw Morus (posthumous, ed. Walter Davies)
• Ioan Siencyn Casgliad o Ganiadau Difyr (posthumous)

Music

• David Charles Hymnau ar Amrywiol Achosion (hymns)
• John Ellis Eliot (hymn tune)

Births

• 8 January Alfred Russel Wallace, biologist (d. 1913)
• 11 February Llewellyn Turner, politician (d. 1903)
• March Rowland Williams (Hwfa M n), poet and archdruid (d. 1905)
• 17 November Sir John Evans, archaeologist (d. 1908)

Deaths

• 26 February John Philip Kemble, actor, brother of Sarah Siddons, 66
• 4 December John Ryland Harris (Ieuan Ddu), printer, 20
• date unknown William Joseph Williams, American painter of Welsh parentage, 64?

References