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1783 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1783 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • August - Thomas Charles marries Sally Jones and settles in Bala.
  • Industrialist and slave-owner Richard Pennant is created 1st Baron Penrhyn in the county of Lough.
  • Welsh emigrant Evan Williams founds a whiskey distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, which will still be operating in the 21st century.

    • New books

  • Julia Ann Hatton - Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects

    • Music

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

    • Births

  • May - Cadwaladr Jones, minister and literary editor (died 1867)

    • Deaths

  • June 19 - Henry Lloyd, soldier and military writer
  • August 7 - Thomas Llewellyn, Baptist minister and writer, 63?
  • September 2 - Edward Edwards, academic
  • September 6 - Anna Williams, friend of Dr Johnson, 77?
  • December 16 - Sir William James, 1st Baronet, naval commander

    • References

    1783 in Wales Wikipedia
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