1804 in Wales

1804 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1804 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*February - Richard Trevithick completes the building of his steam locomotive at Penydarren ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil.
*March 7 - Inauguration of the British and Foreign Bible Society, largely at the instigation of Thomas Charles.
*"The Cambrian" is the first newspaper published in Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

*Edward Davies - "Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions and Languages of the Ancient Britons"
*Richard Llwyd
**"Gayton Wake, or Mary Dod"
**"Poems, Tales, Odes, Sonnets, Translations from the British"
*Benjamin Heath Malkin - "The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography of South Wales"
*Azariah Shadrach - "Drws i'r Meddwl Segur"
*Hester Thrale - "British Synonymy: or an attempt at regulating the choice of words in familiar conversation"

Music

*Edward Jones - "The Lyric Airs"

Births

*January 14 - Sir Hugh Owen, educationist (d. 1881)
*January 20 - John Jones (Idrisyn), clergyman and author (d. 1887)
*March 5 - John Davies (Siôn Gymro), minister and linguist (d. 1884)
*"date unknown" - Benjamin Price, first bishop of the "Free Church of England" (d. 1896)

Deaths

*March 19 - Philip Yorke, antiquary, 60
*September 20 - Josiah Rees, Unitarian minister, 59
*December 7 - Morgan John Rhys, Baptist minister, 43


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