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1791 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1791 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • June - William Jones distributes copies of an address at the Llanrwst eisteddfod, titled To all Indigenous Cambro-Britons, calling on poor Welsh farmers to set up a colony in the United States.
  • Richard Phillips builds Clyne Castle.
  • Peter Williams is excommunicated by the Methodists for publishing Sabellian heresy.
  • Probable date of completion of Methodist chapel at Earlswood, Monmouthshire.
  • Thomas Jones becomes High Sheriff of Radnorshire.

    • New books

  • Joshua Thomas - New translation of the Baptist "Confession of Faith" issued by the London Assembly of 1689
  • John Williams - An enquiry into the truth of the tradition concerning the discovery of America by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the year 1170
  • Peter Williams Llythyr at Hen Gydymaith

    • Births

  • date unknown - Robert Everett, Independent minister and writer (d. 1875)

    • Deaths

  • 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

    • References

    1791 in Wales Wikipedia
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