1795 in Wales
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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.
- June - Cecilia Thrale, youngest daughter of Hester Thrale, elopes with John Meredith Mostyn, a member of the prominent Anglesey family.[1]
- July - Ezekiel Hughes, Edward Bebb and others leave Llanbryn-mair on foot, bound for Philadelphia.
- September - Hester Thrale and her second husband, Gabriele Piozzi, settle in Wales, where they begin renovating Bachygraig.[2]
- Samuel Homfray brings an unsuccessful suit, at Hereford Assizes, of the commoners against the Dowlais Company.[3]
- The events of the French Revolution cause corn prices to rise dramatically, but wages do not follow. Food riots are commonplace across Wales for the several years after.
- The Universal British Directory includes the first-ever entry for Merthyr Tydfil.[4]
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)
- date unknown
- Maria Jane Williams, musician (d. 1873)
- Zephaniah Williams, Chartist (d. 1874)
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
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References
- ↑ John Rylands University Library: Thrale-Piozzi manuscripts. Accessed 16 January 2015
- ↑ The Gregynog Papers #7: Chapter 3. Accessed 16 January 2015
- ↑ Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Accessed 16 January 2015
- ↑ Paul Reynolds, The Ironmasters' Bags (2010), p93
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