1793 in Wales

1793 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1793 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*A clipper, the "Pennsylvania", is wrecked on The Smalls with the loss of 75 lives.
*A group of Quakers from Nantucket Island settle at Milford Haven, where they attempt to set up a whaling industry.
*"Y Cylchgrawn Cymraeg" is the first political journal to be published in the Welsh language.

Arts and literature

New books

*Edward Daniel Clarke - "A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791"

Births

*January 17 - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866)
*March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist (date of death unknown)
*July 19 - John Propert, physician (d. 1867)
*August 10 - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848)
*September 25 - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835)

Deaths

*January 5 - Elizabeth Griffith, actress and writer, 73?


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