1801 in Wales

1801 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1801 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*Opening of Chirk aqueduct.
*First railway in north Wales is built by Lord Penrhyn to link his quarries with Bethesda and Port Penrhyn.

Arts and literature

New books

*"Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion"
*"The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales", vol. 1
*Azariah Shadrach - "Allwedd Myfyrdod"
*Hester Thrale - "Retrospection: or a review of the most striking events, characters, situations, and their consequences, which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the view of mankind"

Music

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Births

*February 6 - William Williams (Caledfryn), poet and critic (d. 1869)
*November 1 - John Lloyd Davies, politician (d. 1860)
*November 18 - David Rees, minister and writer (d. 1869)

Deaths

*February 14 - Rice Jones, antiquary, 87


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