1801 in Wales

1801 in Wales
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1801 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1801

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1801 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Events

Opening of Chirk aqueduct.
First railway in north Wales is built by Lord Penrhyn to link his quarries with Bethesda and Port Penrhyn.

Arts and literature

New books

Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion
The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, vol. 1
Azariah Shadrach - Allwedd Myfyrdod
Hester Thrale - Retrospection: or a review of the most striking events, characters, situations, and their consequences, which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the view of mankind

Music

Births

6 February - William Williams (Caledfryn), poet and critic (d. 1869)
24 May(probable) - Elizabeth Randles, harpist and pianist (d. 1829)
1 November - John Lloyd Davies, politician (d. 1860)
18 November - David Rees, minister and writer (d. 1869)
23 December - William Watkin Edward Wynne, politician (d. 1880)
date unknown - Thomas Phillips, lawyer, politician and businessman, mayor of Newport (d.1867)

Deaths

16 January - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 45
14 February - Rice Jones, antiquary, 87