1800s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1800 - 1809 to Wales and its people.
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[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New books
- J. T. Barber - A Tour Throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire (1803)
- Thomas Charles - The Welsh Methodists Vindicated (1802)
- Edward Davies
- Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions and Languages of the Ancient Britons (1804)
- 'The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids (1809)
- Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn)
- Barddoniaeth (1803)
- Ieithiadur neu Ramadeg Cymraeg (1808)
- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Bannau y Byd (1808)
- John Evans - A Tour through part of North Wales in … 1798 and at other times (1800)
- John Jones - A Development of … Events calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its … Purity (1800)
- Thomas Jones - A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants (1800)
- Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay (1800)
- The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, vol. 1 (1801)
- William Ouseley - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia (1800)
- William Owen Pughe - Geiriadur Cymraeg-Saesneg (1803)
- Abraham Rees - The New Cyclopaedia, vol. 1 (1802)
- Thomas Roberts of Llwynrhudol - Amddiffyniad i'r Methodistiaid (1806)
- Azariah Shadrach - Allwedd Myfyrdod (1801)
- Charles Symmons - Life of Milton (1806)
- Richard Warner - Second Walk Through Wales (1800)
- Henry Wigstead - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797 (1800)
[edit] Music
- 1802
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, vol. 2
- 1806
- Casgliad o Hymnau gan mwyaf heb erioed eu hargraffu o'r blaen (collection of hymns)
- 1807
- Anthem y Saint… gan Evan Dafydd (collection of hymns)
[edit] Sport
- 1802 - Royal Anglesey Yacht Club founded at Beaumaris.
[edit] Births
- 1800
- March 6 - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)
- June 20 - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)
- October 1 - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
- November 29 - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)
- date unknown - James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)
- 1801
- February 6 - William Williams (Caledfryn), poet and critic (d. 1869)
- November 18 - David Rees, minister and writer (d. 1869)
- 1802
- August - Ebenezer Thomas, poet (d. 1863)
- August 24 - William Rowlands (Gwilym Lleyn) (d. 1865)
- November 8
- Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (d. 1867)
- William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), poet and author (d. 1883)
- December 4 - Calvert Jones, pioneer photographer (d. 1877)
- December 12
- John Ryland Harris, printer (d. 1823)
- Isaac Williams, poet (d. 1865)
- date unknown - Thomas Robert Jones, founder of the True Ivorites (d. 1856)
- 1803
- May 10 - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, owner of Margam Castle (d. 1890)
- October 17 - Samuel Holland, industrialist (d. 1892)
- date unknown - Owain Meirion, balladeer (d. 1868)
- 1806
- February 1 - Jane Williams (Ysgafell), writer (d. 1885)
- April 21 - Sir George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (d. 1863)
- 1807
- date unknown - Sir William Milbourne James, judge (d. 1881)
- 1808
- date unknown - Sir John Henry Scourfield, author (d. 1876)
- 1809
- January 18 - John Gwyn Jeffreys, conchologist (d. 1885)
- April 17 - Thomas Brigstocke, painter (d. 1881)
- May 24 - William Chambers, politician (d. 1882)
- May 26 - G. T. Clark, engineer (d. 1885)
- August 11 - Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), writer (d. 1880)
- date unknown - Evan James, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem
[edit] Deaths
- 1800
- March 14 - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist (b. 1727)
- May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author
- 1802
- November 28 - Robert Roberts, preacher (b. 1762)
- November 30 - Thomas Williams of Llanidan (b. 1737)
- December 31 - Francis Lewis, signatory of the Declaration of American Independence (b. 1713)
- date unknown - Joseph Hoare, academic (b. 1709)
- 1804
- September 20 - Josiah Rees, Unitarian minster (b. 1744)
- December 7 - Morgan John Rhys, Baptist minister (b. 1760)
- 1805
- August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer (b. 1776)
- 1807
- July 18 - Thomas Jones, mathematician (b. 1756)
- 1808
- January 21 - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (b. 1737)
- 1809
- April - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven (b. 1749)
- October 28 - Hugh Pugh, Independent minister (b. 1779)
- November 28 - Robert Roberts, preacher (b. 1762)
