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1800s in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1800 - 1809 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 1800
  • 1801
  • 1802
  • 1803
  • 1804
  • 1805
  • 1806
  • 1807
  • 1808
  • 1809

    • New books

  • J. T. Barber - A Tour Throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire (1803)
  • Thomas Charles - The Welsh Methodists Vindicated (1802)
  • Edward Davies
  • Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions and Languages of the Ancient Britons (1804)
  • 'The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids (1809)
  • Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn)
  • Barddoniaeth (1803)
  • Ieithiadur neu Ramadeg Cymraeg (1808)
  • Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Bannau y Byd (1808)
  • John Evans - A Tour through part of North Wales in ... 1798 and at other times (1800)
  • John Jones - A Development of ... Events calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its ... Purity (1800)
  • Thomas Jones - A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants (1800)
  • Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay (1800)
  • The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, vol. 1 (1801)
  • William Ouseley - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia (1800)
  • William Owen Pughe - Geiriadur Cymraeg-Saesneg (1803)
  • Abraham Rees - The New Cyclopaedia, vol. 1 (1802)
  • Thomas Roberts of Llwynrhudol - Amddiffyniad i'r Methodistiaid (1806)
  • Azariah Shadrach - Allwedd Myfyrdod (1801)
  • Charles Symmons - Life of Milton (1806)
  • Richard Warner - Second Walk Through Wales (1800)
  • Henry Wigstead - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797 (1800)

    • Music

  • 1802
  • Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, vol. 2
  • 1806
  • Casgliad o Hymnau gan mwyaf heb erioed eu hargraffu o'r blaen (collection of hymns)
  • 1807
  • Anthem y Saint... gan Evan Dafydd (collection of hymns)

    • Sport

  • 1802 - Royal Anglesey Yacht Club founded at Beaumaris.

    • Births

  • 1800
  • March 6 - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)
  • June 20 - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)
  • October 1 - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
  • November 29 - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)
  • date unknown - James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)
  • 1801
  • February 6 - William Williams (Caledfryn), poet and critic (d. 1869)
  • November 18 - David Rees, minister and writer (d. 1869)
  • 1802
  • August - Ebenezer Thomas, poet (d. 1863)
  • August 24 - William Rowlands (Gwilym Lleyn) (d. 1865)
  • November 8
  • Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (d. 1867)
  • William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), poet and author (d. 1883)
  • December 4 - Calvert Jones, pioneer photographer (d. 1877)
  • December 12
  • John Ryland Harris, printer (d. 1823)
  • Isaac Williams, poet (d. 1865)
  • date unknown - Thomas Robert Jones, founder of the True Ivorites (d. 1856)
  • 1803
  • May 10 - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, owner of Margam Castle (d. 1890)
  • October 17 - Samuel Holland, industrialist (d. 1892)
  • date unknown - Owain Meirion, balladeer (d. 1868)
  • 1806
  • February 1 - Jane Williams (Ysgafell), writer (d. 1885)
  • April 21 - Sir George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (d. 1863)
  • 1807
  • date unknown - Sir William Milbourne James (judge) (d. 1881)
  • 1808
  • date unknown - Sir John Henry Scourfield, author (d. 1876)
  • 1809
  • January 18 - John Gwyn Jeffreys, conchologist (d. 1885)
  • April 17 - Thomas Brigstocke, painter (d. 1881)
  • May 24 - William Chambers, politician (d. 1882)
  • May 26 - G. T. Clark, engineer (d. 1885)
  • August 11 - Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), writer (d. 1880)
  • date unknown - Evan James, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem

    • Deaths

  • 1800
  • March 14 - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist (b. 1727)
  • May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author
  • 1802
  • November 28 - Robert Roberts, preacher (b. 1762)
  • November 30 - Thomas Williams of Llanidan (b. 1737)
  • December 31 - Francis Lewis, signatory of the Declaration of American Independence (b. 1713)
  • date unknown - Joseph Hoare, academic (b. 1709)
  • 1804
  • September 20 - Josiah Rees, Unitarian minister (b. 1744)
  • December 7 - Morgan John Rhys, Baptist minister (b. 1760)
  • 1805
  • August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer (b. 1776)
  • 1807
  • July 18 - Thomas Jones, mathematician (b. 1756)
  • 1808
  • January 21 - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (b. 1737)
  • 1809
  • April - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven (b. 1749)
  • October 28 - Hugh Pugh, Independent minister (b. 1779)
  • November 28 - Robert Roberts, preacher (b. 1762)

    • References

    1800s in Wales Wikipedia
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