1805 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1805 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey â Henry Paget[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire â Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire â Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire â Thomas Johnes[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire â John Vaughan (until 19 January);[7] George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor (from 21 April)
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire â Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire â Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan â John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute[9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet[10]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire â Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis[11]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire â Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford[2][12]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire â George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney[13][2][14]
Events
- 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.[23]
- 26 November - The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened, the tallest and longest in Britain, completing the canal's Llangollen branch.[24]
- unknown dates
Arts and literature
New books
- Thomas Charles - Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol[27]
- Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 1
- Titus Lewis - A Welsh â English Dictionary, Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg[28]
- Robert Southey - Madoc[29]
Music
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) takes up residence in St James's Palace.
Visual arts
Births
- 13 December - Robert Griffiths, inventor (died 1883)[31]
- 19 December - John David Edwards, hymn-writer (died 1885)[32]
- date unknown
- Evan Davies, missionary (died 1864)[33]
- Hugh Hughes (Tegai), writer (died 1864)[34]
- John William Thomas, mathematician (died 1840)
Deaths
- 15 April - Mary Morgan, servant, 16 (executed by hanging, for killing her newborn child)[35]
- August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer, 29[36]
- 25 November - Jonathan Hughes, poet, 84[37]