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1801 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1801 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • Opening of Chirk aqueduct.
  • First railway in north Wales is built by Lord Penrhyn to link his quarries with Bethesda and Port Penrhyn.

    • New books

  • Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion
  • The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, vol. 1
  • Azariah Shadrach - Allwedd Myfyrdod
  • Hester Thrale - Retrospection: or a review of the most striking events, characters, situations, and their consequences, which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the view of mankind

    • Births

  • 6 February - William Williams (Caledfryn), poet and critic (d. 1869)
  • 24 May(probable) - Elizabeth Randles, harpist and pianist (d. 1829)
  • 1 November - John Lloyd Davies, politician (d. 1860)
  • 18 November - David Rees, minister and writer (d. 1869)
  • 23 December - William Watkin Edward Wynne, politician (d. 1880)
  • date unknown - Thomas Phillips, lawyer, politician and businessman, mayor of Newport (d.1867)

    • Deaths

  • 16 January - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 45
  • 14 February - Rice Jones, antiquary, 87

    • References

    1801 in Wales Wikipedia
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