1800 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1800 to Wales and its people.
See also:List of years in Wales
Timeline of Welsh history
Timeline of Welsh history
- 1800 in
- Great Britain
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire â Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne (until 6 January); Thomas Johnes (from 4 July)[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â John Vaughan
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford[2][10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â Thomas Harley[11][2]
- Bishop of Bangor â John Warren (until 27 January); William Cleaver (from 24 May)[12][13][14]
- Bishop of Llandaff â Richard Watson[15]
- Bishop of St Asaph â Lewis Bagot[16][12]
- Bishop of St Davids â William Stuart (until October);[17] Lord George Murray (nominated)
Events
- February - John Bryan begins preaching.[18]
- 5 May - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti.[19]
- 1 August - The Naval Temple on The Kymin at Monmouth is dedicated.[20]
- August - Owen Davies and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.[21]
- December - The Brecon Canal opens between Brecon and Talybont.[22]
- unknown dates
- Richard Fothergill goes into partnership with Samuel Homfray at Tredegar.[23] Jeremiah Homfray begins leasing mineral lands at Abernant, Cwmbach, and Rhigos.[24]
- Edward Charles becomes official "bard" of the Gwyneddigion Society.[25]
- 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.
- William Nott joins the Bengal European Regiment in India.
Arts and literature
New books
English language
- William Bingley - Tour round North Wales[26]
- 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[27]
- Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay[28]
- William Ouseley - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia
- Henry Wigstead - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797[29]
Welsh language
- Timothy Thomas - Traethiad am y Wisg-Wen Ddisglair (2nd edition)[30]
Music
Births
- 4 March - Dr William Price, physician (d. 1893)[32]
- 6 March - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)[33]
- 22 March - Thomas Bevan, Archdeacon of St David's (d. 1863)[34]
- 20 June - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)[35]
- 1 August - Elizabeth Randles, musical prodigy (d. 1829)[36]
- 1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
- 30 October - Ernest Vaughan, 4th Earl of Lisburne, landowner and politician (d. 1873)[37]
- 29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)[38]
- date unknown
- James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)[39]
- David Morris, politician (d. 1864)[40]
Deaths
- 6 January
- William Jones of Neyland, clergyman and author, 73[41]
- Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne, politician, 71[42]
- 27 January - John Warren, Bishop of St David's and later of Bangor[43][14]
- 14 March - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist, 72[44]
- May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author, age unknown[45]
- 14 July - Basil Feilding, 6th Earl of Denbigh, 81[46]