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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1800 to Wales and its people.
[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
- February - John Bryan begins preaching.
- May 5 - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.
- August - Owen Davies and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.
- Opening of Brecon Canal between Brecon and Talybont.
- John Rice Jones becomes first attorney-general of Indiana.
- Richard Fothergill goes into partnership with Samuel Homfray at Tredegar. Jeremiah Homfray begins leasing mineral lands at Abernant, Cwmbach, and Rhigos.
- Edward Charles becomes official "bard" of the Gwyneddigion Society.
- Thomas Charles introduces the practice of allowing Calvinistic Methodist congregations to elect their own elders.
- Richard Ellis succeeds his father, Lewis Ellis, as organist of Beaumaris Church.
- William Jones establishes a grammar school at Wrexham.
- John Kenrick III develops his great-uncle's chandlery at Wrexham into a bank.
- William Nott joins the Bengal European Regiment in India.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New books
- John Evans - A Tour through part of North Wales in … 1798 and at other times
- John Jones - A Development of … Events calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its … Purity
- Thomas Jones - A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants
- Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay
- William Ouseley - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia
- Richard Warner - Second Walk Through Wales
- Henry Wigstead - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
