1800 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1800 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)[1]
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick[2]
Events
- February - John Bryan begins preaching.[3]
- 5 May - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.[4]
- 1 August - Naval Temple on The Kymin at Monmouth is dedicated.[5]
- August - Owen Davies and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.[6]
- December - Opening of Brecon Canal between Brecon and Talybont.[7]
- 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[8]
- 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[9]
- Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay[10]
- 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
Births
- 4 March - Dr William Price, physician (d. 1893)[12]
- 6 March - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)
- 22 March - Thomas Bevan, Archdeacon of St David's (d. 1863)
- 20 June - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)[13]
- 1 August - Elizabeth Randles, musical prodigy (d. 1829)[14]
- 1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
- 30 October - Ernest Vaughan, 4th Earl of Lisburne, landowner and politician (d. 1873)[15]
- 29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)
- date unknown
- James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)[16]
- David Morris, politician (d. 1864)[17]
Deaths
- 6 January - William Jones of Neyland, clergyman and author, 73[18]
- 27 January - John Warren, Bishop of St David's and later of Bangor[19]
- 14 March - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist, 72[20]
- May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author
References
- ^ Smith, E. A. (1999). George IV. Yale University Press. p. 1. ISBN 0-300-07685-1.
- ^ Smith, E. A. (2008) [2004]. "Caroline (1768–1821)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/94608. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
- ^ Albert Hughes Williams. "Bryan, John (1776-1856), Wesleyan Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ The history of the Tahitian Mission, 1799-1830. Published for the Hakluyt Society at the University Press. 1961.
- ^ "Naval Temple". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 31 March 2019.
- ^ Albert Hughes Williams. "Davies, Owen (1752-1830), Wesleyan Methodist minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ Norris, John (2007). The Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal (5th Ed.). privately published. ISBN 0-9517991-4-2.
- ^ Simon Bainbridge (16 April 2020). Mountaineering and British Romanticism: The Literary Cultures of Climbing, 1770-1836. Oxford University Press. p. 59. ISBN 978-0-19-885789-1.
- ^ Anne Kelly Knowles (February 1997). Calvinists Incorporated: Welsh Immigrants on Ohio's Industrial Frontier. University of Chicago Press. pp. 46. ISBN 978-0-226-44853-4.
- ^ Allan Ingram; Joanna Fowler (29 April 2016). Voice and Context in Eighteenth-Century Verse: Order in Variety. Springer. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-137-48763-6.
- ^ Lullaby (Suo Gan) Lesley Nelson-Burns, Contemplator.com . Accessed July 2011
- ^ Dean Powell (15 September 2012). Dr William Price: Wales's First Radical. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 46. ISBN 978-1-4456-2052-7.
- ^ Robert Henry Mair (1872). The School Boards: Our Educational Parliaments. p. 358.
- ^ Dictionary of Musicians (1824). "Select Biography. Miss Randles, the Cambrian Musical Prodigy". In Percy, Reuben; Timbs, John (eds.). The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 4. J. Limbird. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ^ "Death of the Earl of Lisburne". Welshman. 14 November 1873. p. 5. Retrieved 13 November 2019.
- ^ Williams, Griffith John. "James Davies". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 June 2017.
- ^ Edward Walford (1871). The County Families of the United Kingdom: Or, Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. Robert Hardwicke. pp. 706.
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ George Lewis SMYTH (1843). Biographical Illustrations of Westminster Abbey. pp. 211.
- ^ Englishmen (1836). Lives of eminent and illustrious Englishmen, ed. by G. G. Cunningham. pp. 291.