1806 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1806 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 6 January - The William and Mary founders in the Irish Sea off Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, with the loss of all hands.
• 9 January - The ship Cecelia, on a voyage from Dublin to Barbados, founders in the Irish Sea off Holyhead, Anglesey, with the loss of all hands.
• 10 March - The ship Prosperous founders off Anglesey with the loss of all hands.
• 6 May - The first Welsh language version of the New Testament issued by the British and Foreign Bible Society is published.
• 1 October - The brig Mary runs aground on the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea and is wrecked with the loss of seven of the ten people on board. Two of the survivors are rescued by Mary, a ship homeported in Liverpool, Lancashire, whilst the third is rescued by Mary, a ship homeported in Amlwch, Anglesey.
• 25 October - The sloop Margaret, on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Greenock, Renfrewshire, is wrecked near Holyhead, Anglesey, with the loss of all on board.
• 3 December - Ships affected by a storm in the Irish Sea include:
  • Eliza, driven ashore at Cardigan, Pembrokeshire, on a voyage from Virginia, United States to Dublin. Her crew are rescued.
  • John, on a voyage from Youghal, County Cork to Dublin, driven ashore at Caernarfon.
  • Milford, driven ashore at Cardigan while on a voyage from Liverpool to Wilmington, Delaware, United States. Her crew are rescued.
• The first Nonconformist school in Wales is opened at Swansea.
• William Madocks obtains an Act of Parliament to allow him to construct a harbour at Portinllaen.
• William Owen Pughe inherits the estate of the Rev. Rees Pughe in Denbighshire and takes the surname "Pughe".
• Anthony Bushby Bacon sells his share of the Hirwaun ironworks to his brother Thomas and buys the Mathews' estate at Aberaman.
• Julia Ann Hatton moves to Kidwelly after her husband's death.
• A stone-built Caerleon Bridge is opened.
• A new bridge is built across the River Dyfi at Machynlleth.
• Thomas Jones of Denbigh marries for a third time, to Mary Lloyd.
• The Prince of Wales makes an impromptu visit to Wales in the company of Sir Richard Puleston. To commemorate the event, he plants a young oak tree.

Arts and literature

New books

• Titus Lewis & Joseph Harris (Gomer) - Y Drysorfa Efangylaidd
• William Richards - Address on the Duration or Perpetuity of Christian Baptism, with some Introductory Hints upon the Subjects and Mode of that Ordinance
• Thomas Roberts of Llwynrhudol - Amddiffyniad i'r Methodistiaid
• Charles Symmons - Life of Milton

Music

• Casgliad o Hymnau gan mwyaf heb erioed eu hargraffu o'r blaen (collection of hymns)

Births

• 1 February - Jane Williams (Ysgafell), writer (died 1885)
• 9 April - Theophilus Redwood, pharmacist (died 1892)
• 21 April - Sir George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (died 1863)
• date unknown
  • Joseph Murray Ince, painter (died 1859)
  • Harry Longueville Jones, archæologist, artist and Inspector of Schools for Wales (died 1870)
  • David Pugh, politician (died 1890)
• probable - Thomas Rees (Twm Carnabwth), Rebecca rioter (died 1876)

Deaths

• 2 March - Robert Watkin Wynne, politician, 52?
• 19 September - John Roberts, hymn-writer, 75
• date unknown
  • Fulke Greville, former MP for Monmouth Boroughs