1801 in Wales

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1801 in the United Kingdom

1801 in Ireland

Other events of 1801

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1801 to Wales and its people.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 New books 3.2 Music 4 Births 5 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

[edit] Events

• Opening of Chirk aqueduct.
• First railway in north Wales is built by Lord Penrhyn to link his quarries with Bethesda and Port Penrhyn.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] New books

• Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion
• The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, vol. 1
• Azariah Shadrach - Allwedd Myfyrdod
• Hester Thrale - Retrospection: or a review of the most striking events, characters, situations, and their consequences, which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the view of mankind

[edit] Music

[edit] Births

• February 6 - William Williams (Caledfryn), poet and critic (d. 1869)
• November 1 - John Lloyd Davies, politician (d. 1860)
• November 18 - David Rees, minister and writer (d. 1869)

[edit] Deaths

• February 14 - Rice Jones, antiquary, 87