1793 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1793 to Wales and its people.

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Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1770s
  • 1780s
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
  • 1810s
See also:
1793 in
Great Britain
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events
  • 22 November - Two ships, the Morva and the Cavendish, are wrecked on The Smalls off Pembrokeshire.[1]
  • Construction of Clydach Ironworks begins.[2]
  • A group of Quakers from Nantucket Island settle at Milford Haven, where they attempt to set up a whaling industry.
  • Y Cylchgrawn Cymraeg is the first political journal to be published in the Welsh language.

Arts and literature

New books
  • Edward Daniel Clarke - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791[3]

Births
  • 17 January - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866)
  • 8 February - Daniel Rees, clergyman and hymn-writer (d. 1857)
  • March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist (date of death unknown)
  • 19 July - John Propert, physician (d. 1867)
  • 10 August - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848)
  • 11 October - Maria James, poet and domestic servant (d. 1868 in the United States)
  • 25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835)

Deaths
gollark: (very fermi estimation, but it's probably not THAT many orders of magnitude out)
gollark: If we assume you open the keyboard, I don't know, 50 times a day, and it takes 0.5 seconds each time, this is 25 seconds a day, or 144 days for it to cost an hour of time.
gollark: This seems dubious, even if we ignore the implication that there aren't reasonably fast Android phones.
gollark: I see no possible bad outcomes whatsoever, really.
gollark: You could compete to answer vaguely HV-adjacent questions.

References
  1. "The Marine List". Lloyd's List (2562). 22 November 1793.
  2. A. W. Skempton; Mike Chrimes (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830. Thomas Telford. pp. 319–. ISBN 978-0-7277-2939-2.
  3. Michael J. Franklin (22 September 2011). 'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794. OUP Oxford. pp. 121–. ISBN 978-0-19-953200-1.
  4. Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "LLOYD, JOHN (1733–1793)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2008.
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