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1780s in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1780 - 1789 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 1780
  • 1781
  • 1782
  • 1783
  • 1784
  • 1785
  • 1786
  • 1787
  • 1788
  • 1789

    • New books

    1780

  • John Walters - Poems with Notes

    • 1781

  • Thomas Pennant - Tours in Wales, volume 2

    • 1782

  • Thomas Pennant - Journey to Snowdon, volume 1

    • 1783

  • Julia Ann Hatton - Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects

    • 1784

  • Richard Price - Importance of the American Revolution

    • 1785

  • Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth

    • 1786

  • David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
  • Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life

    • 1788

  • Hester Lynch Piozzi - Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson

    • 1789

  • Richard Price - Love for our Country

    • Music

    1781

  • John Parry (harpist) - British Harmony, being a Collection of Antient Welsh Airs

    • 1783

  • Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion o Fawl i'r Oen

    • 1784

  • Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards

    • 1787

  • Nathaniel Williams - Ychydig o Hymnau Newyddion

    • Births

  • 1780
  • 10 February - James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor (died 1862)
  • 14 May - Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician (died 1855)
  • 7 October - Wyndham Lewis, MP (died 1838)
  • 1781
  • 1782
  • 20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)
  • 29 December - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857)
  • 1783
  • May - Cadwaladr Jones, minister and literary editor (died 1867)
  • 1784
  • 17 January - Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)
  • date unknown - Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)
  • 1785
  • December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848)
  • 24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845)
  • date unknown - William Owen, historian (died 1864)
  • 1786
  • 1787
  • 2 October - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), historian (died 1848)
  • 1788
  • 12 February - William Williams, MP (died 1865)
  • 3 October - John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860)
  • 1789
  • 22 April - Richard Roberts, engineer (died 1864)
  • 24 May - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (died 1860)

    • Deaths

  • 1780
  • 6 March - Sir John Meredith, lawyer, 65
  • 1 April - Sir Stephen Glynne, 7th Baronet, 35
  • date unknown - Richard Thomas, genealogist, 46
  • 1781
  • 4 April - Henry Thrale, brewer
  • 12 October - David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân), Franciscan friar and author
  • 1782
  • 15 May - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54
  • November - John Parry, harpist
  • 1783
  • 7 August - Thomas Llewellyn, Baptist minister and writer, 63?
  • 6 September - Anna Williams, friend of Dr Johnson, 77?
  • 1784
  • 5 April - David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
  • 1785
  • 2 February - John Guest, industrialist, 63
  • 20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?
  • 1789
  • 24 July - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician, 39
  • 7 August - William Edwards, minister and bridge-builder, 70
  • 26 November - Elizabeth Baker, diarist, 70?

    • References

    1780s in Wales Wikipedia
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