1804 in Wales

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1804 in the United Kingdom

1804 in Ireland

Other events of 1804

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1804 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

• February - Richard Trevithick completes the building of his steam locomotive at Penydarren ironworks, Merthyr Tydfil.
• March 7 - Inauguration of the British and Foreign Bible Society, largely at the instigation of Thomas Charles.
• The Cambrian is the first newspaper published in Wales.

[edit] Arts and literature

[edit] New books

• Edward Davies - Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions and Languages of the Ancient Britons
• Richard Llwyd
  • Gayton Wake, or Mary Dod
  • Poems, Tales, Odes, Sonnets, Translations from the British
• Benjamin Heath Malkin - The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography of South Wales
• Azariah Shadrach - Drws i'r Meddwl Segur
• Hester Thrale - British Synonymy: or an attempt at regulating the choice of words in familiar conversation

[edit] Music

• Edward Jones - The Lyric Airs

[edit] Births

• January 14 - Sir Hugh Owen, educationist (d. 1881)
• January 20 - John Jones (Idrisyn), clergyman and author (d. 1887)
• March 5 - John Davies (Siôn Gymro), minister and linguist (d. 1884)
• date unknown - Benjamin Price, first bishop of the "Free Church of England" (d. 1896)

[edit] Deaths

• March 19 - Philip Yorke, antiquary, 60
• September 20 - Josiah Rees, Unitarian minister, 59
• December 7 - Morgan John Rhys, Baptist minister, 43