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1780 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1780 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • January - Admiral Sir Thomas Foley plays an important role in the relief of Gibraltar.
  • 1 July - Anthony Bacon acquires the lease of the Hirwaun ironworks.
  • 26 August - Edward Williames Salusbury Vaughan succeeds to the Rûg estate.
  • 29 September - Sir Watkin Lewes is elected Lord Mayor of London.
  • Thomas Parry Jones-Parry marries his cousin Margaret and acquires the Madryn estate.
  • The Ladies of Llangollen settle at Plas Newydd.
  • Richard Price devises the "Northampton Tables" for calculating actuarial valuation for assurance and pensions.
  • The development of Ebbw Vale Steelworks begins.

    • New books

  • John Walters - Poems with Notes

    • Births

  • 10 February - James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor (died 1862)
  • 15 April - Angharad Llwyd, antiquary (died 1866)
  • 14 May - Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician (died 1855)
  • 7 October - Wyndham Lewis, MP (died 1838)
  • date unknown
  • Dic Aberdaron (Richard Robert Jones), traveller and linguist (died 1843)
  • Thomas Prothero, lawyer and businessman (died 1853)

    • Deaths

  • 6 March - Sir John Meredith, lawyer, 65
  • 1 April - Sir Stephen Glynne, 7th Baronet, 35
  • date unknown - Richard Thomas, genealogist, 46

    • References

    1780 in Wales Wikipedia
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