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1805 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1805 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • Alban Thomas Jones-Gwynne builds the town of Aberaeron.
  • 21 October - Battle of Trafalgar: A British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. About 465 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Wales.
  • 26 November - The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened, the tallest and longest in Britain, completing the canal's Llangollen branch.

    • New books

  • Thomas Charles - Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol
  • Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 1
  • Titus Lewis - A Welsh — English Dictionary, Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg
  • Robert Southey - Madoc

    • Music

  • Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) takes up residence in St James's Palace.

    • Visual arts

  • English watercolour landscape painter David Cox makes his first tour in Wales.

    • Births

  • 13 December - Robert Griffiths, inventor (died 1883)
  • 19 December - John David Edwards, hymn-writer (died 1885)
  • date unknown
  • Evan Davies, missionary (died 1864)
  • Hugh Hughes (Tegai), writer (died 1864)
  • John William Thomas, mathematician (died 1840)

    • Deaths

  • 13 April - Mary Morgan, servant, 16 (executed by hanging, for killing her newborn child)
  • August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer, 29
  • 25 November - Jonathan Hughes, poet, 84

    • References

    1805 in Wales Wikipedia
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