1805 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1805 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events
- Alban Thomas Jones-Gwynne builds the town of Aberaeron.
- 21 October - Battle of Trafalgar: A British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. About 465 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Wales.[1]
- 26 November - The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened, the tallest and longest in Britain, completing the canal's Llangollen branch.[2]
Arts and literature
New books
- Thomas Charles - Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol
- Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 1
- Titus Lewis - A Welsh — English Dictionary, Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg
- Robert Southey - Madoc
Music
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) takes up residence in St James's Palace.
Visual arts
- English watercolour landscape painter David Cox makes his first tour in Wales.
Births
- 13 December - Robert Griffiths, inventor (died 1883)
- 19 December - John David Edwards, hymn-writer (died 1885)
- date unknown
- Evan Davies, missionary (died 1864)
- Hugh Hughes (Tegai), writer (died 1864)
- John William Thomas, mathematician (died 1840)
Deaths
- 13 April - Mary Morgan, servant, 16 (executed by hanging, for killing her newborn child)
- August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer, 29
- 25 November - Jonathan Hughes, poet, 84
References
- ^ "Trafalgar ancestors". The National Archives (United Kingdom). Retrieved 2014-08-28.
- ^ Rolt, L. T. C. (1958). Thomas Telford. London: Longmans, Green.