1784 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1784 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

March 30 - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls.
May 14 - Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, is created Baron Bulkeley.
July - Hester Thrale marries Gabriele Piozzi, much to the displeasure of Dr Samuel Johnson.
July 28 - Lloyd Kenyon is raised to a baronetcy.
Henry Bayly Paget, 9th Baron Paget, is created Earl of Uxbridge.
Samuel Homfray and his brother quarrel with Anthony Bacon and take out a lease of one of the richest iron-ore deposits in the district (which develops into the Penydarren ironworks).
Lady Henrietta Antonia Herbert, heiress of the Earl of Powis, marries Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive of Plassey.

Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards

January 17 - Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)
date unknown
- Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)
- Anthony Hill, ironmaster (died 1862)