This article is about the particular significance of the year 1816 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget, 1st Marquess of Anglesey Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes (until 23 April) Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney Bishop of Bangor – Henry Majendie Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson (until 4 July) Herbert Marsh (from 25 August) Bishop of St Asaph – John Luxmoore Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess Events 10 February - Pembroke Dock's first Royal Navy ships are launched: HMS Ariadne and HMS Valorous. 7 May - Hay Railway opens throughout. 24 July - Old Wye Bridge, Chepstow (rebuilt in cast iron), is opened across the River Wye. 9 October - Fanny Imlay, half-sister of Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, takes a room at the Mackworth Arms in Swansea, and instructs the maid not to disturb her. The following day she is found dead, having taken a fatal dose of laudanum. Nantyglo Round Towers built. Taliesin Williams, son of Iolo Morganwg, opens a school at Merthyr Tydfil. Arts and literature New books English language Ann Hatton - Chronicles of an Illustrious House Samuel Johnson - A Diary of a Journey Into North Wales, in the Year 1774 Welsh language Jane Ellis - Cerddi (first published Welsh language book by a woman) Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Traethawd ar Briodol Dduwdod ein Harglwydd Iesu Grist Music John Ellis - Mawl yr Arglwydd (collection of hymns) Births 11 January - Henry Robertson, Scots engineer responsible for building the North Wales Mineral Railway (d. 1888) 7 March - Huw Derfel Hughes, poet and historian (d. 1890) 3 June - John Ormsby-Gore, 1st Baron Harlech, politician (d. 1876) 11 June - Thomas William Davids, ecclesiastical historian (d. 1884) 16 August - Charles John Vaughan, dean of