1793 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1793 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• Construction of Clydach Ironworks begins.
• A clipper, the Pennsylvania, is wrecked on The Smalls with the loss of 75 lives.
• A group of Quakers from Nantucket Island settle at Milford Haven, where they attempt to set up a whaling industry.
• Y Cylchgrawn Cymraeg is the first political journal to be published in the Welsh language.

Arts and literature

New books

• Edward Daniel Clarke - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791

Births

• 17 January - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866)
• 8 February - Daniel Rees, clergyman and hymn-writer (d. 1857)
• March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist (date of death unknown)
• 19 July - John Propert, physician (d. 1867)
• 10 August - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848)
• 25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835)

Deaths

• January - Marged ferch Ifan, harpist, 96
• 5 January - Elizabeth Griffith, actress and writer, 73?
• 14 March - Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, 57
• 22 May - John Lloyd, antiquary, 60