1799 in Wales

1799 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1799 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*October - Anthony Bacon II and his brother Thomas take over the Hirwaun ironworks. Thomas sells his interest in the Plymouth ironworks to the Hill family.
*October 16 - Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri) and Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris) are "ordained" bards of the province of Gwynedd by Iolo Morganwg.
*Following the failure of the Pembrokeshire fish harvest, Richard Fenton imports grain from the Mediterranean to relieve the plight of local people.
*Peter Price becomes manager of Neath ironworks, and brings his family, including his wife Anna and his son Joseph Tregelles Price.
*Japanner John Pyrke relocates to Usk from London.
*Ann Hatton and her husband take a lease on Swansea Bathing House.
*Iolo Morganwg travels to North Wales to collect material for the "Myvyrian Archaiology".
*Launch of the quarterly periodical "Trysorfa Ysprydol" by Thomas Charles.

Arts and literature

New books

*Philip Yorke - "The Royal Tribes of Wales"

Births

*June 30 - David Williams, politician (d. 1869)

Deaths

*May - John Evans, explorer, 29
*November 4 - Josiah Tucker, economist, 87
*December 14 - Benjamin Francis, hymn-writer, 55


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