1800s in Wales

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

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

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

Arts and literature

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)

port

*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 minster (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)