1793 in Wales

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1793 in Great Britain

1793 in Ireland

Other events of 1793

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

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 New books 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
• Princess of Wales - vacant

[edit] 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.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] New books

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

[edit] 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)

[edit] Deaths

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