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1778 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1778 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
  • Princess of Wales - vacant

    • Events

  • A furnace is built at Sirhowy by Thomas Atkinson and William Barrow of London. This is the first stage of the Tredegar ironworks.

    • New books

  • Robert Jones - Drych i'r Anllythrennog
  • Thomas Pennant - Tour in Wales
  • Nathaniel Williams - Dialogus

    • Births

  • 29 September - Benjamin Hall, industrialist and politician (died 1817)
  • November - Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, admiral (died 1845)

    • Deaths

  • 25 April - James Relly, Methodist minister, 56?
  • 6 October - William Worthington, priest and author, 74
  • date unknown - William Owen, Royal Navy officer

    • References

    1778 in Wales Wikipedia
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