1778 in Wales

1778 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1778 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*A furnace is built at Sirhowy by Thomas Atkinson and William Barrow of London. This is the first stage of the Tredegar ironworks.

Arts and literature

New books

*Robert Jones - "Drych i'r Anllythrennog"
*Nathaniel Williams - "Dialogus"

Music

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Births

*September 29 - Benjamin Hall, industrialist and politician (died 1817)
*November - Sir Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, admiral (died 1845)

Deaths

*April 25 - James Relly, Methodist minister, 56?
*October 6 - William Worthington, clergyman and author, 74


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