1800 in Wales

← 1799 1798 1797 1796 1795 1800 in Wales → 1801 1802 1803 1804 1805
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1800 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

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

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• February - John Bryan begins preaching.
• 5 May - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.
• 1 August - Naval Temple on The Kymin at Monmouth dedicated.
• August - Owen Davies and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.
• Opening of Brecon Canal between Brecon and Talybont.
• John Rice Jones becomes first attorney-general of Indiana.
• 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
• 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
• Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay
• 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)

Births

• 4 March - Dr William Price, physician (d. 1893)
• 6 March - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)
• 20 June - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)
• 1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
• 29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)
• date unknown - James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)

Deaths

• 5 January - William Jones of Neyland, clergyman and author, 73
• 27 January - John Warren, Bishop of St David's and later of Bangor
• 14 March - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist, 72
• May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author