1808 in Wales

1808 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1808 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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.