1786 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1786 to Wales and its people.

← 1785 1784 1783 1782 1781 1786 in Wales → 1787 1788 1789 1790 1791
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1786 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

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

1. H. J. Habakkuk (1994). Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650-1950. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-820398-8.
2. Hester Lynch Piozzi (1786). Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: during the last twenty years of his life. Printed for T. Cadell.
3. Kennedy, Deborah, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press (June 2002). ISBN 0-8387-5511-9.
4. Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa. 1953.