1800 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1800 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

February - John Bryan begins preaching.
5 May - 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.

William Bingley - Tour round North Wales
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