1833 in Wales

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Incumbents

29 January - In the United Kingdom general election, Sir John Edwards, 1st Baronet, defeats Tory candidate Panton Corbett to win the enlarged constituency of Montgomery for the Liberals.
2 April - Launch of HMS Royal William at Pembroke Dock. This is the first ship to be built there with over 100 guns.
26 May - John Etherington Welch Rolls of The Hendre, Monmouth, marries Elizabeth Long, granddaughter of the 7th Earl of Northesk. They are the parents of John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock.^[1]
Isaac Williams becomes Dean of Trinity College, Oxford.
Lady Charlotte Bertie marries John Josiah Guest.
Adrian Stephens invents the steam whistle as a safety device for use at Dowlais Ironworks; he fails to patent it.
The community of Gomer, Ohio, is founded in the USA by Welsh settlers.
Abbey Cwmhir Hall is constructed on the site of an earlier house.

Sir Harford Jones Brydges - The Dynasty of the Kajars, translated from the original Persian manuscript
Eliza Constantia Campbell - Stories from the History of Wales

10 January - Richard Davies (Mynyddog), poet (d. 1877)
23 January - Sir Lewis Morris, poet (d. 1907)
6 July - David Hugh Jones (Dewi Arfon), poet (d. 1869)
12 July - John Hugh Evans, Wesleyan minister and temperance campaigner (d. 1886)
20 August - General Sir James Hills-Johnes, military leader (d. 1919)
date unknown
- James James (Iago ap Ieuan), harpist and composer (d. 1902)
- Jacob Thomas, VC recipient (d. 1911)

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