1794 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1794 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

21 April - Charles Kemble, Brecon-born brother of Sarah Siddons, makes his first appearance on the London stage as Malcolm in Macbeth.
Richard Crawshay buys out Anthony Bacon to become sole proprietor of Cyfarthfa ironworks.
Completion of the Pontypridd to Cardiff section of the Glamorganshire Canal.
Richard Hill is accused by the owners of the Glamorganshire Canal of improperly taking water from the Taff river which for his Plymouth ironworks.
Mumbles Lighthouse is built.
Henry Paget commands the 80th Foot in Flanders.
Morgan John Rhys emigrates to Pennsylvania, where he founds the Welsh colony of Cambria.
The music of Men of Harlech is first published (without words) as Gorhoffedd Gwŷr Harlech—March of the Men of Harlech in the second edition of The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards.^[1]

Iolo Morganwg - Poems Lyric and Pastoral
Hester Thrale - British Synonymy: or an attempt at regulating the choice of words in familiar conversation
Peter Williams - Gwreiddyn y Mater

7 May - Rees Howell Gronow, memoirist (d. 1865)
3 November - David Thomas, industrialist (d. 1882)
date unknown
- Evan Davies (Eta Delta), Independent minister (d. 1855)
- Thomas Jenkyn, theologian (d. 1858)

22 January - John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart, MP and heir of the Marquess of Bute, 26
?August - Sackville Gwynne, landowner, 43?
19 August - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet, soldier and politician, 76
1 October - David William, hymn-writer, 74
Hon. William Paget, MP for Anglesey, 25?

↑ Fuld, James J. (2000). The Book of World-famous Music: classical, popular, and folk (5th ed.). Dover. p. 394.

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