1800 in Wales

1800 in Wales

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1800 in: Great Britain • Ireland • Scotland

Other events of 1800

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

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• February - John Bryan begins preaching.
• 5 May - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.
• 1 August - Naval Temple on The Kymin at Monmouth dedicated.
• 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.

Arts and literature

New books

• 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

Music

• "Suo Gân" (approximate first printing)^[1]

Births

• 4 March - Dr William Price, physician (d. 1893)
• 6 March - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)
• 20 June - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)
• 1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
• 29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)
• date unknown - James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)

Deaths

• 5 January - William Jones of Neyland, clergyman and author, 73
• 27 January - John Warren, Bishop of St David's and later of Bangor
• 14 March - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist, 72
• May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author

References