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1800 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
16th 17th 18th 19th 20th

Decades:
  
1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1800 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • February - John Bryan begins preaching.
  • 5 May - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.
  • 1 August - Naval Temple on The Kymin at Monmouth dedicated.
  • August - Owen Davies and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.
  • Opening of Brecon Canal between Brecon and Talybont.
  • John Rice Jones becomes first attorney-general of Indiana.
  • Richard Fothergill goes into partnership with Samuel Homfray at Tredegar. Jeremiah Homfray begins leasing mineral lands at Abernant, Cwmbach, and Rhigos.
  • Edward Charles becomes official "bard" of the Gwyneddigion Society.
  • Thomas Charles introduces the practice of allowing Calvinistic Methodist congregations to elect their own elders.
  • Richard Ellis succeeds his father, Lewis Ellis, as organist of Beaumaris Church.
  • William Jones establishes a grammar school at Wrexham.
  • John Kenrick III develops his great-uncle's chandlery at Wrexham into a bank.
  • William Nott joins the Bengal European Regiment in India.

    • New books

  • William Bingley - Tour round North Wales
  • John Evans - A Tour through part of North Wales in … 1798 and at other times
  • John Jones - A Development of … Events calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its … Purity
  • Thomas Jones - A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants
  • Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay
  • William Ouseley - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia
  • Richard Warner - Second Walk Through Wales
  • Henry Wigstead - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797

    • Music

  • "Suo Gân" (approximate first printing)

    • Births

  • 4 March - Dr William Price, physician (d. 1893)
  • 6 March - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)
  • 20 June - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)
  • 1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
  • 29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)
  • date unknown - James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)

    • Deaths

  • 5 January - William Jones of Neyland, clergyman and author, 73
  • 27 January - John Warren, Bishop of St David's and later of Bangor
  • 14 March - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist, 72
  • May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author

    • References

    1800 in Wales Wikipedia
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