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1798 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1798 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • March - Historian William Richards returns from Wales to King's Lynn.
  • 31 March - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire;
  • 13 July - William Wordsworth, visiting Wales, writes "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour".
  • First recorded use of the word "tramroad", in the minutes of the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company.
  • "Great Debate" held at Ramoth Chapel in Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, as a result of which John Richard Jones forms the "Scottish Baptist" connexion.
  • The Gwyneddigion Society launches its project of publishing ancient Welsh manuscripts.
  • William Lort Mansel becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
  • William Madocks buys the Tan-yr-Allt estate on Traeth Mawr.
  • Morgan John Rhys buys a tract of land in the Allegheny mountains of North America for the purpose of founding a Welsh colony, which he names Cambria.
  • Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is climbed by Peter Bailey Williams and William Bingley, botanists looking for alpine plants on Snowdon.

    • New books

  • Emily Clark - Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon
  • 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

    • Music

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

    • Births

  • 3 August - Llewelyn Lewellin, first principal of St David's College, Lampeter (died 1878)
  • 16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (died 1882)

    • Deaths

  • 21 June - Edward Evans, poet, 81
  • 6 July - Joshua Evans, Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66
  • 23 November - David Samwell, naval surgeon and poet, 47
  • 16 December - Thomas Pennant, naturalist and travel writer, 72

    • References

    1798 in Wales Wikipedia
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