1808 in Wales

1808 in Wales

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

Incumbents

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

Events

*January 5 - First issue of "The North Wales Gazette" is printed at Bangor.
*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.
*Twelve-year-old Charles Nice Davies goes to serve in India as an ensign.

Arts and literature

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

*May 13 - Thomas Aubrey, Wesleyan leader (d. 1867)
*"date unknown" - Sir John Henry Scourfield, author (d. 1876)

Deaths

*January 21 - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, 70?
*December 28 - Griffith Roberts, physician and collector of manuscripts, 73


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