1798 in Wales

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Incumbents

March - Historian William Richards returns from Wales to King's Lynn.
31 March - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire;^[1]
13 July - William Wordsworth, visiting Wales, writes "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour".
First recorded use of the word "tramroad", in the minutes of the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company.
"Great Debate" held at Ramoth Chapel in Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, as a result of which John Richard Jones forms the "Scottish Baptist" connexion.
The Gwyneddigion Society launches its project of publishing ancient Welsh manuscripts.
William Lort Mansel becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
William Madocks buys the Tan-yr-Allt estate on Traeth Mawr.
Morgan John Rhys buys a tract of land in the Allegheny mountains of North America for the purpose of founding a Welsh colony, which he names Cambria.
Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is climbed by Peter Bailey Williams and William Bingley, botanists looking for alpine plants on Snowdon.

Emily Clark - Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon
Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol - Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder
Hester Thrale - Three Warnings to John Bull before he dies. By an Old Acquaintance of the Public

3 August - Llewelyn Lewellin, first principal of St David's College, Lampeter (died 1878)
16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (died 1882)

1798 in Europe
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