1795 in Wales

1795 in Wales

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1795 in: Great Britain • Ireland

Other events of 1795

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1795 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
• Princess of Wales - (from April) Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• 8 April - The Prince of Wales marries his first cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick.
• July - Ezekiel Hughes, Edward Bebb and others leave Llanbryn-mair on foot, bound for Philadelphia.
• Samuel Homfray brings an unsuccessful suit, at Hereford Assizes, of the commoners against the Dowlais Company.
• Hester Thrale and her second husband, Gabriele Piozzi, settle in Wales, where they begin renovating Bachygraig.
• The events of the French Revolution causes corn prices to rise dramatically, but wages do not follow. Food riots are commonplace across Wales for the several years after.

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa Gymysgedig
• John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Seren Tan Gwmmwl

Births

• 13 January - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, politician (d. 1884)
• 5 August - George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician (d. 1869)
• December - John Davies, philosopher (d. 1861)
• 7 December - Samuel George Homfray, industrialist (d. 1882)
• 11 December - Thomas Taylor Griffith, surgeon (d. 1876)

Deaths

• 25 January - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72
• 20 August - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical 71
• 14 October - Henry Owen, theologian, 79
• date unknown - David Ellis, clergyman and poet, about 58