1785 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1785 to Wales and its people.

1785
in
Wales

Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
  • 1780s
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
See also:
1785 in
Great Britain
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events

  • October - The Mona Mine Company is formed by Thomas Williams of Llanidan and Henry Bayly Paget, 1st Earl of Uxbridge.[1]
  • Richard Pennant buys out the Yonge family of Devon and comes into possession of the whole of the Penrhyn estate.
  • Griffith Rowlands becomes surgeon to Chester city hospital.
  • Sir Joshua Reynolds paints the Prince of Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

Births

  • 9 August - John Henry Vivian, industrialist and politician (died 1855)
  • December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848)
  • 24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845)
  • date unknown

Deaths

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References

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