1788 in Wales

1788 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1788 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

*March 18 - Great Sessions at Wrexham hear a graveyard dispute between the "Old" and "New" chapels at Llanuwchllyn.
*June 4 - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench.

Arts and literature

New books

*John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - "Yr Athrofa Rad"
*Hester Lynch Piozzi - "Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson"

Births

*February 12 - William Williams, MP (died 1865)
**October 3 - John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860)

Deaths

*August 4 - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), clergyman and poet, 57


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