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

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

February - John Bryan begins preaching.^[1]
5 May - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.^[2]
1 August - Naval Temple on The Kymin at Monmouth is dedicated.^[3]
August - Owen Davies and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.^[4]
December - Opening of Brecon Canal between Brecon and Talybont.^[5]
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^[6]
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^[7]
Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay^[8]
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)^[9]

Births

4 March - Dr William Price, physician (d. 1893)^[10]
6 March - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)
22 March - Thomas Bevan, Archdeacon of St David's (d. 1863)
20 June - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)^[11]
1 August - Elizabeth Randles, musical prodigy (d. 1829)^[12]
1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
30 October - Ernest Vaughan, 4th Earl of Lisburne, landowner and politician (d. 1873)^[13]
29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)
date unknown
- James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)^[14]
- David Morris, politician (d. 1864)^[15]

Deaths

6 January - William Jones of Neyland, clergyman and author, 73^[16]
27 January - John Warren, Bishop of St David's and later of Bangor^[17]
14 March - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist, 72^[18]
May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author

References

^ Albert Hughes Williams. "Bryan, John (1776-1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
^ The history of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830. Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press. 1961.
^ "Naval Temple". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
^ Albert Hughes Williams. "Davies, Owen (1752-1830), Wesleyan Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
^ Norris, John (2007). The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (5th Ed.). privately published. ISBN 0-9517991-4-2.
^ Simon Bainbridge (16 April 2020). Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836. Oxford University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-19-885789-1.
^ Anne Kelly Knowles (February 1997). Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. University of Chicago Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-226-44853-4.
^ Allan Ingram; Joanna Fowler (29 April 2016). Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse: Order in Variety. Springer. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-137-48763-6.
^ Lullaby (Suo Gan) Lesley Nelson-Burns, Contemplator.com . Accessed July 2011
^ Dean Powell (15 September 2012). Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-4456-2052-7.
^ Robert Henry Mair (1872). The School Boards: Our Educational Parliaments. p. 358.
^ Dictionary of Musicians (1824). "Select Biography. Miss Randles, the Cambrian Musical Prodigy". In Percy, Reuben; Timbs, John (eds.). The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 4. J. Limbird. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
^ "Death of the Earl of Lisburne". Welshman. 14 November 1873. p. 5. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
^ Williams, Griffith John. "James Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
^ Edward Walford (1871). The County Families of the United Kingdom: Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. Robert Hardwicke. p. 706.
^ "Jones, William (1726-1800)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
^ George Lewis SMYTH (1843). Biographical Illustrations of Westminster Abbey. pp. 211.
^ Englishmen (1836). Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham. pp. 291.

[1] Albert Hughes Williams. "Bryan, John (1776-1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.

[2] The history of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830. Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press. 1961.

[3] "Naval Temple". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 31 March 2019.

[4] Albert Hughes Williams. "Davies, Owen (1752-1830), Wesleyan Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.

[5] Norris, John (2007). The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (5th Ed.). privately published. ISBN 0-9517991-4-2.

[6] Simon Bainbridge (16 April 2020). Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836. Oxford University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-19-885789-1.

[7] Anne Kelly Knowles (February 1997). Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. University of Chicago Press. p. 46. ISBN 978-0-226-44853-4.

[8] Allan Ingram; Joanna Fowler (29 April 2016). Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse: Order in Variety. Springer. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-137-48763-6.

[9] Lullaby (Suo Gan) Lesley Nelson-Burns, Contemplator.com . Accessed July 2011

[10] Dean Powell (15 September 2012). Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-4456-2052-7.

[11] Robert Henry Mair (1872). The School Boards: Our Educational Parliaments. p. 358.

[12] Dictionary of Musicians (1824). "Select Biography. Miss Randles, the Cambrian Musical Prodigy". In Percy, Reuben; Timbs, John (eds.). The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 4. J. Limbird. Retrieved 2 April 2016.

[13] "Death of the Earl of Lisburne". Welshman. 14 November 1873. p. 5. Retrieved 13 November 2019.

[14] Williams, Griffith John. "James Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 June 2017.

[15] Edward Walford (1871). The County Families of the United Kingdom: Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. Robert Hardwicke. p. 706.

[16] "Jones, William (1726-1800)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.

[17] George Lewis SMYTH (1843). Biographical Illustrations of Westminster Abbey. pp. 211.

[18] Englishmen (1836). Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham. pp. 291.

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 ==Arts and literature==
 ===New books===
+*[[William Bingley]] - ''Tour round North Wales''<ref>{{cite book|author=Simon Bainbridge|title=Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p8jXDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59|date=16 April 2020|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-885789-1|pages=59}}</ref>
-*[[William Bingley]] - ''Tour round North Wales''
 *[[John Evans (travel writer)|John Evans]] - ''A Tour through part of North Wales in … 1798 and at other times''
 *[[John Jones (Unitarian)|John Jones]] - ''A Development of … Events calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its … Purity''
-*[[Thomas Jones (landowner)|Thomas Jones]] - ''A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants''
+*[[Thomas Jones (landowner)|Thomas Jones]] - ''A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants''<ref>{{cite book|author=Anne Kelly Knowles|title=Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tp9ceqPrStEC&pg=PA46|date=February 1997|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-44853-4|pages=46}}</ref>
+*[[Richard Llwyd]] - ''Beaumaris Bay''<ref>{{cite book|author1=Allan Ingram|author2=Joanna Fowler|title=Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse: Order in Variety|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-IukCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT100|date=29 April 2016|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-137-48763-6|pages=100}}</ref>
-*[[Richard Llwyd]] - ''Beaumaris Bay''
 *[[William Ouseley]] - ''Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia''
 *[[Richard Warner (author)|Richard Warner]] - ''Second Walk Through Wales''
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 ==Births==
-*[[4 March]] - [[William Price (physician)|Dr William Price]], physician (d. 1893)
+*[[4 March]] - [[William Price (physician)|Dr William Price]], physician (d. [[1893 in Wales|1893]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Dean Powell|title=Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TUdpCAAAQBAJ&pg=PP46|date=15 September 2012|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-2052-7|pages=46}}</ref>
-*[[6 March]] - [[Samuel Roberts (writer)|Samuel Roberts (S.R.)]], Radical leader (d. 1885)
+*[[6 March]] - [[Samuel Roberts (writer)|Samuel Roberts (S.R.)]], Radical leader (d. [[1885 in Wales|1885]])
+*[[22 March]] - [[Thomas Bevan (priest)|Thomas Bevan]], Archdeacon of St David's (d. [[1863 in Wales|1863]])
-*[[20 June]] - [[Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn]] (d. 1886)
+*[[20 June]] - [[Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn]] (d. [[1886 in Wales|1886]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Robert Henry Mair|title=The School Boards: Our Educational Parliaments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OkWFEV-G_l0C&pg=RA1-PA358|year=1872|pages=358}}</ref>
-*[[1 October]] - [[Williams Evans (hymnist)|Williams Evans]], hymnist (d. 1880)
+*[[1 August]] - [[Elizabeth Randles]], musical prodigy (d. [[1829 in Wales|1829]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Dictionary of Musicians|editor1-last=Percy|editor1-first=Reuben|editor2-last=Timbs|editor2-first=John|title=The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 4|date=1824|publisher=J. Limbird|url=https://archive.org/details/mirrorliteratur03unkngoog|accessdate=2 April 2016|chapter=Select Biography. Miss Randles, the Cambrian Musical Prodigy}}</ref>
-*[[29 November]] - [[David Griffith (Clwydfardd)]], poet and archdruid (d. 1894)
+*[[1 October]] - [[Williams Evans (hymnist)|Williams Evans]], hymnist (d. [[1880 in Wales|1880]])
-*''date unknown'' - [[James James (Iago Emlyn)]], minister and poet (d. 1879)
+*[[30 October]] - [[Ernest Vaughan, 4th Earl of Lisburne]], landowner and politician (d. [[1873 in Wales|1873]])<ref>{{cite news |title=Death of the Earl of Lisburne |url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/4355161/4355166/22/ |accessdate=13 November 2019 |agency=Welshman |date=14 November 1873 |page=5}}</ref>
+*[[29 November]] - [[David Griffith (Clwydfardd)]], poet and archdruid (d. [[1894 in Wales|1894]])
+*''date unknown''
+**[[James James (Iago Emlyn)]], minister and poet (d. [[1879 in Wales|1879]])<ref>{{cite web|title=James Davies|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-JAM-1800|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|last=Williams|first=Griffith John|accessdate= 6 June 2017}}</ref>
+**[[David Morris (Whig politician)|David Morris]], politician (d. [[1864 in Wales|1864]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Edward Walford|title=The County Families of the United Kingdom: Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7dLPG9S1nzsC&pg=PA706|year=1871|publisher=Robert Hardwicke|pages=706}}</ref>
 ==Deaths==
-*[[5 January]] - [[William Jones of Nayland|William Jones of Neyland]], clergyman and author, 73<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Jones, William (1726-1800)}}</ref>
+*[[6 January]] - [[William Jones of Nayland|William Jones of Neyland]], clergyman and author, 73<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Jones, William (1726-1800)}}</ref>
 *[[27 January]] - [[John Warren (bishop)|John Warren]], Bishop of St David's and later of Bangor<ref>{{cite book|author=George Lewis SMYTH|title=Biographical Illustrations of Westminster Abbey|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.94105|year=1843|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.94105/page/n234 211]}}</ref>
 *[[14 March]] - [[Daines Barrington]], antiquary and naturalist, 72<ref>{{cite book|author=Englishmen|title=Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham|url=https://archive.org/details/liveseminentand10englgoog|year=1836|pages=[https://archive.org/details/liveseminentand10englgoog/page/n79 291]}}</ref>