1800 in Wales

1800 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1800 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*February - John Bryan begins preaching.
*May 5 - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.
*August - Owen Davies and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.
*Opening of Brecon Canal between Brecon and Talybont.
*John Rice Jones becomes first attorney-general of Indiana.
*Richard Fothergill goes into partnership with Samuel Homfray at Tredegar. Jeremiah Homfray begins leasing mineral lands at Abernant, Cwmbach, and Rhigos.
*Edward Charles becomes official "bard" of the Gwyneddigion Society.
*Thomas Charles introduces the practice of allowing Calvinistic Methodist congregations to elect their own elders.
*Richard Ellis succeeds his father, Lewis Ellis, as organist of Beaumaris Church.
*William Jones establishes a grammar school at Wrexham.
*John Kenrick III develops his great-uncle's chandlery at Wrexham into a bank.
*William Nott joins the Bengal European Regiment in India.

Arts and literature

New books

*William Bingley - "Tour round North Wales"
*John Evans - "A Tour through part of North Wales in … 1798 and at other times"
*John Jones - "A Development of … Events calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its … Purity"
*Thomas Jones - "A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants"
*Richard Llwyd - "Beaumaris Bay"
*William Ouseley - "Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia"
*Richard Warner - "Second Walk Through Wales"
*Henry Wigstead - "Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797"

Music

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Births

*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)

Deaths

*March 14 - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist, 72
*May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author


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