- 1804 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1804 to
Wales and its people.Incumbents
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Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
*Princess of Wales -Caroline of Brunswick Events
*February -
Richard Trevithick completes the building of his steam locomotive atPenydarren ironworks,Merthyr Tydfil .
*March 7 - Inauguration of theBritish and Foreign Bible Society , largely at the instigation ofThomas 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
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January 14 - SirHugh 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
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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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