1797 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1797 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- 22 February - Last invasion of Britain: a joint French-American force of 1,400 troops, transported on four French warships, lands near Fishguard.
- 23 February - Last invasion of Britain: The invasion force clashes with a hastily-assembled group of around 500 British reservists, militia and sailors, under the command of John Campbell, 1st Baron Cawdor.
- 24 February - Last invasion of Britain: Colonel William Tate is forced into an unconditional surrender. The French warships escape capture and return to France. The prisoners are marched through Fishguard on their way to temporary imprisonment at Haverfordwest.
- 9 March - Last invasion of Britain: HMS St Fiorenzo, under the command of Sir Harry Neale and Captain John Cooke's HMS Nymphe, capture La Resistance and La Constance in the Irish Sea.
- Richard Fothergill and the Rev. Matthew Monkhouse take over Tredegar ironworks and construct a new furnace.
Arts and literature
New books
- Edward Charles - Epistolau Cymraeg at y Cymry
- John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Toriad y Dydd
- Nathaniel Williams - Pregeth a Bregethwyd yn Llangloffan ar Neilltuad … Joseph James a James Davies
Births
- 11 January - Connop Thirlwall, Bishop of St David's (died 1875)
- 21 August - John Iltyd Nicholl, MP and judge (died 1853)
- date unknown - John Blackwell (Alun), poet (died 1841)
Deaths
- 1 June - John Walters, lexicographer, 75
- 25 August - Joshua Thomas, minister, 78