1828 in Wales

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Incumbents

Prince Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex, visits the eisteddfod at Denbigh, making it the first to receive a royal visit.
The Llanelly Railway is established by Act of Parliament.
An iron suspension bridge is built to link South Stack with Holy Island, Anglesey.
David Owen (Brutus) becomes editor of the periodical Lleuad yr Oes at Aberystwyth.

Ellis Evans - Unoliaeth a Gweledigaeth yr Eglwys, sef, Llythyr Cymanfa Cefn Mawr
Thomas Prichard - The Adventures and Vagaries of Twm Shôn Catti
David Saunders (Dafydd Glan Teifi) - Awdl ar Fordaith yr Apostol Paul
John Thomas - Telyn y Cantorion
John Walters - An English and Welsh Dictionary
Thomas Wiliam - Cwyn yr Unig

William Owen (Gwilym Ddu Glan Hafren) - Y Caniedydd Crefyddol (collection of hymn tunes)

30 January - John David Jenkins, philanthropist (d. 1876)
4 March - Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys), clergyman and writer (d. 1870)
13 March - Thomas Morgan Thomas, missionary (d. 1884)
6 May - Sir Hugh Rowlands, soldier (d. 1909)
4 June - David Thomas (Dewi Hefin), poet (d. 1909)
23 September - Charles James Watkin Williams, politician (d. 1884)
30 October - Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford, lawyer and statesman (d. 1911)
13 December - David Lewis Wooding, genealogist (d. 1891)
date unknown
- John Richard Hughes, evangelist (d. 1893)
- John Pryce, clergyman and writer (d. 1903)

19 February - Thomas Jones (Y Bardd Cloff), 59
29 March - Griffith Rowlands, surgeon, 65
12 May - Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist, 75
September - William Madocks, landowner, 55
29 December - Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, 67
date unknown
- Edward Charles (Siamas Gwynedd), writer, 70?
- Sir Thomas Hanmer, 2nd Baronet, politician

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