1786 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1786 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- 25 December - Plymouth ironworks is leased to Richard Hill.
- The Kinmel estate is sold to the Rev Edward Hughes for £42,000.[1]
- Abraham Rees completes his edition of Chambers 's Encyclopaedia, and is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his work.
- Charles Pratt is created Earl Camden.
Arts and literature
New books
- David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
- Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life[2]
- Helen Maria Williams - Poems[3]
Music
- William Ellis - Ychydig o Hymnau a Chaniadau Newyddion (collection of hymns)[4]
- Benjamin Francis - Aleluia (collection of hymns)
Births
- 6 April - John Humffreys Parry, barrister and antiquary (died 1825)
- May - John Jones, printer and inventor (died 1865)
- 22 June - Ellis Evans, minister and author (died 1864)
Deaths
- 21 January - Anthony Bacon, ironmaster, 67
- 2 July (bur.) - John Ystumllyn, gardener, "first well-recorded black person of North Wales"
- 16 September - Edward Parry, poet and hymn-writer, 63
References
- ^ H. J. Habakkuk (1994). Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650-1950. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-820398-8.
- ^ Hester Lynch Piozzi (1786). Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: during the last twenty years of his life. Printed for T. Cadell.
- ^ Kennedy, Deborah, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press (June 2002). ISBN 0-8387-5511-9.
- ^ Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa. 1953.