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1795 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1795 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 8 April - The Prince of Wales marries his first cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick.
  • June - Cecilia Thrale, youngest daughter of Hester Thrale, elopes with John Meredith Mostyn, a member of the prominent Anglesey family.
  • July - Ezekiel Hughes, Edward Bebb and others leave Llanbryn-mair on foot, bound for Philadelphia.
  • September - Hester Thrale and her second husband, Gabriele Piozzi, settle in Wales, where they begin renovating Bachygraig.
  • Samuel Homfray brings an unsuccessful suit, at Hereford Assizes, of the commoners against the Dowlais Company.
  • The events of the French Revolution cause corn prices to rise dramatically, but wages do not follow. Food riots are commonplace across Wales for the several years after.
  • The Universal British Directory includes the first-ever entry for Merthyr Tydfil.

    • New books

  • Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa Gymysgedig
  • John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Seren Tan Gwmmwl

    • Births

  • 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)
  • date unknown
  • Maria Jane Williams, musician (d. 1873)
  • Zephaniah Williams, Chartist (d. 1874)

    • Deaths

  • 25 January - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72
  • 20 August - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical 71
  • 14 October - Henry Owen, theologian, 79
  • date unknown - David Ellis, clergyman and poet, about 58

    • References

    1795 in Wales Wikipedia
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