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1808 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1808 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 5 January - First issue of The North Wales Gazette is printed at Bangor.
  • 19 November - The naval frigate HMS Owen Glendower is launched.
  • date unknown
  • Construction of the Horseshoe Falls on the River Dee by Thomas Telford.
  • The publishing house Gwasg Gee is founded.
  • St Katherine's Church, Milford Haven, built by Charles Francis Greville, is consecrated.
  • Benjamin Hall is given the Abercarn estate by his father-in-law, Richard Crawshay.
  • William Lort Mansel becomes Bishop of Bristol.
  • The White Book of Hergest is destroyed in a fire at Covent Garden.
  • The Ruabon Brook Tramway is extended from Acrefair to the Plas Madoc Colliery in Plasbennion.
  • Twelve-year-old Charles Nice Davies goes to serve in India as an ensign.

    • New books

  • Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) - Ieithiadur neu Ramadeg Cymraeg
  • Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Bannau y Byd
  • Felicia Hemans - Juvenile Poems
  • Titus Lewis - Llyfr Rhyfeddodau

    • Music

  • Hymnau o Fawl i Dduw a'r Oen (hymns by Ann Griffiths, posthumously published)

    • Births

  • 30 January - Sir John Henry Scourfield, author (died 1876)
  • 6 March - William Williams (Carw Coch), man of letters and eisteddfodwr (died 1872)
  • 13 May - Thomas Aubrey, Wesleyan leader (died 1867)
  • date unknown
  • Dic Penderyn, labourer executed for his part in the Merthyr Rising (died 1831)
  • William Roos, artist and engraver (died 1878)

    • Deaths

  • 21 January - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, 70?
  • 30 November - Watkin Williams, politician, 66?
  • 28 December - Griffith Roberts, physician and collector of manuscripts, 73

    • References

    1808 in Wales Wikipedia
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