1808 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1808 to Wales and its people.
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[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
- January 5 - First issue of The North Wales Gazette is printed at Bangor.
- Construction of the Horseshoe Falls on the River Dee by Thomas Telford.
- The publishing house Gwasg Gee is founded.
- St Katherine's Church, Milford Haven, built by Charles Francis Greville, is consecrated.
- Benjamin Hall is given the Abercarn estate by his father-in-law, Richard Crawshay.
- William Lort Mansel becomes Bishop of Bristol.
- The White Book of Hergest is destroyed in a fire at Covent Garden.
- Twelve-year-old Charles Nice Davies goes to serve in India as an ensign.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] New books
- Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) - Ieithiadur neu Ramadeg Cymraeg
- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Bannau y Byd
- Felicia Hemans - Juvenile Poems
- Titus Lewis - Llyfr Rhyfeddodau
[edit] Music
- Hymnau o Fawl i Dduw a'r Oen (hymns by Ann Griffiths, posthumously published)
[edit] Births
- May 13 - Thomas Aubrey, Wesleyan leader (d. 1867)
- date unknown - Sir John Henry Scourfield, author (d. 1876)
[edit] Deaths
- January 21 - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, 70?
- December 28 - Griffith Roberts, physician and collector of manuscripts, 73
