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1790s in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1790 - 1799 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
  • Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick (from 1795)

    • Events

  • 1790
  • 1791
  • 1792
  • 1793
  • 1794
  • 1795
  • 1796
  • 1797
  • 1798
  • 1799

    • New books

  • 1790
  • Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Gardd o Gerddi
  • Thomas Pennant - Indian Zoology
  • Peter Williams - Tafol i Bwyso Sosiniaeth
  • 1792
  • Hester Thrale - The Three Warnings
  • Nicholas Owen - Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc.
  • 1793
  • Edward Daniel Clarke - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791
  • 1794
  • Iolo Morganwg - Poems Lyric and Pastoral
  • Peter Williams -Gwreiddyn y Mater
  • 1795
  • Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa Gymysgedig
  • John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Seren Tan Gwmmwl
  • 1797
  • Edward Charles - Epistolau Cymraeg at y Cymry
  • John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Toriad y Dydd
  • Nathaniel Williams - Pregeth a Bregethwyd yn Llangloffan ar Neilltuad … Joseph James a James Davies
  • 1798
  • Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol - Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder
  • Hester Thrale - Three Warnings to John Bull before he dies. By an Old Acquaintance of the Public
  • 1799
  • Philip Yorke - The Royal Tribes of Wales

    • Music

  • 1798
  • Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - Popular Cheshire Melodies

    • Births

  • 1790
  • 27 January - William Davies Evans, chess player (d. 1872)
  • 11 August - William Probert, minister and author (d. 1870)
  • 16 September - Thomas Vowler Short, Bishop of St Asaph
  • 29 September - John Jones (printer) (d. 1855)
  • 1791
  • date unknown - Robert Everett, Independent minister and writer (d. 1875)
  • 1792
  • 23 July - Aneurin Owen, scholar (d. 1851)
  • 5 September - Sir David Davies, royal physician (d. 1865)
  • 20 December - David Griffiths, missionary (d. 1863)
  • date unknown - Sir Charles John Salusbury, Baronet (d. 1868)
  • 1793
  • 17 January - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866)
  • March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist (date of death unknown)
  • 19 July - John Propert, physician (d. 1867)
  • 10 August - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848)
  • 25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835)
  • 1794
  • 7 May - Rees Howell Gronow, memoirist (d. 1865)
  • 3 November - David Thomas, industrialist (d. 1882)
  • date unknown
  • Evan Davies (Eta Delta), Independent minister (d. 1855)
  • Thomas Jenkyn, theologian (d. 1858)
  • 1795
  • 13 January - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, politician (d. 1884)
  • 5 August - George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician (d. 1869)
  • December - John Davies, philosopher (d. 1861)
  • 7 December - Samuel George Homfray, industrialist (d. 1882)
  • 11 December - Thomas Taylor Griffith, surgeon (d. 1876)
  • 1796
  • 1 March - John Jones, Talysarn, preacher (d. 1857)
  • 1797
  • 11 January - Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St David's (d. 1875)
  • 1798
  • 16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (d. 1882)
  • 1799
  • 30 June - David Williams, politician (d. 1869)

    • Deaths

  • 1790
  • 20 March - Thomas Richards (lexicographer), 80
  • 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, 77
  • 1791
  • 11 January - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet and hymn-writer, 73
  • 13 February - William Parry, artist, 48
  • 19 April - Richard Price, philosopher, 68
  • 17 September - David Morris (hymn writer), 47
  • 1792
  • 10 March - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, friend of Augusta, Princess of Wales and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bute, 78
  • 17 May - Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician, 72?
  • 1793
  • 5 January - Elizabeth Griffith, actress and writer, 73?
  • 1794
  • 22 January - John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, MP and heir of the Marquess of Bute, 26
  • ?August - Sackville Gwynne, landowner, 43?
  • 19 August - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet, soldier and politician, 76
  • Hon. William Paget, MP for Anglesey, 25?
  • 1795
  • 25 January - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72
  • 14 October - Henry Owen, theologian, 79
  • 1796
  • February - John Jones, organist, 70?
  • 8 August - Peter Williams, Methodist writer, 63
  • 1797
  • 1 June - John Walters, lexicographer, 75
  • 1798
  • 6 July - Joshua Evans, Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66
  • 16 December - Thomas Pennant, naturalist and travel writer, 72
  • 1799
  • May - John Evans, explorer, 29
  • 4 November - Josiah Tucker, economist, 87

    • References

    1790s in Wales Wikipedia
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