1800s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1800–1809 to Wales and its people.

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Other events of the decade

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• 1800
• 1801
• 1802
• 1803
• 1804
• 1805
• 1806
• 1807
• 1808
• 1809

Arts and literature

New books

• J. T. Barber - A Tour Throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire (1803)
• Thomas Charles - The Welsh Methodists Vindicated (1802)
• Edward Davies
  • Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions and Languages of the Ancient Britons (1804)
  • The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids (1809)
• Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn)
  • Barddoniaeth (1803)
  • Ieithiadur neu Ramadeg Cymraeg (1808)
• Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Bannau y Byd (1808)
• John Evans - A Tour through part of North Wales in ... 1798 and at other times (1800)
• John Jones - A Development of ... Events calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its ... Purity (1800)
• Thomas Jones - A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants (1800)
• Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay (1800)
• The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, vol. 1 (1801)
• William Ouseley - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia (1800)
• William Owen Pughe - Geiriadur Cymraeg-Saesneg (1803)
• Abraham Rees - The New Cyclopaedia, vol. 1 (1802)
• Thomas Roberts of Llwynrhudol - Amddiffyniad i'r Methodistiaid (1806)
• Azariah Shadrach - Allwedd Myfyrdod (1801)
• Charles Symmons - Life of Milton (1806)
• Richard Warner - Second Walk Through Wales (1800)
• Henry Wigstead - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797 (1800)

Music

• 1802
  • Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, vol. 2
• 1806
  • Casgliad o Hymnau gan mwyaf heb erioed eu hargraffu o'r blaen (collection of hymns)
• 1807
  • Anthem y Saint... gan Evan Dafydd (collection of hymns)

Sport

• 1802 - Royal Anglesey Yacht Club founded at Beaumaris.

Births

• 1800
  • 6 March - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)
  • 20 June - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)
  • 1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
  • 29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)
  • date unknown - James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)
• 1801
  • 6 February - William Williams (Caledfryn), poet and critic (d. 1869)
  • 18 November - David Rees, minister and writer (d. 1869)
• 1802
  • August - Ebenezer Thomas, poet (d. 1863)
  • 24 August - William Rowlands (Gwilym Lleyn) (d. 1865)
  • 8 November
    • Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (d. 1867)
    • William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), poet and author (d. 1883)
  • 4 December - Calvert Jones, pioneer photographer (d. 1877)
  • 12 December
    • John Ryland Harris, printer (d. 1823)
    • Isaac Williams, poet (d. 1865)
  • date unknown - Thomas Robert Jones, founder of the True Ivorites (d. 1856)
• 1803
  • 10 May - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, owner of Margam Castle (d. 1890)
  • 17 October - Samuel Holland, industrialist (d. 1892)
  • date unknown - Owain Meirion, balladeer (d. 1868)
• 1806
  • 1 February - Jane Williams (Ysgafell), writer (d. 1885)
  • 21 April - Sir George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (d. 1863)
• 1807
  • date unknown - Sir William Milbourne James (judge) (d. 1881)
• 1808
  • date unknown - Sir John Henry Scourfield, author (d. 1876)
• 1809
  • 18 January - John Gwyn Jeffreys, conchologist (d. 1885)
  • 17 April - Thomas Brigstocke, painter (d. 1881)
  • 24 May - William Chambers, politician (d. 1882)
  • 26 May - G. T. Clark, engineer (d. 1885)
  • 11 August - Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), writer (d. 1880)
  • date unknown - Evan James, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem

Deaths

• 1800
  • 14 March - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist (b. 1727)
  • May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author
• 1802
  • 28 November - Robert Roberts, preacher (b. 1762)
  • 30 November - Thomas Williams of Llanidan (b. 1737)
  • 31 December - Francis Lewis, signatory of the Declaration of American Independence (b. 1713)
  • date unknown - Joseph Hoare, academic (b. 1709)
• 1804
  • 20 September - Josiah Rees, Unitarian minister (b. 1744)
  • 7 December - Morgan John Rhys, Baptist minister (b. 1760)
• 1805
  • August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer (b. 1776)
• 1807
  • 18 July - Thomas Jones, mathematician (b. 1756)
• 1808
  • 21 January - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (b. 1737)
• 1809
  • April - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven (b. 1749)
  • 28 October - Hugh Pugh, Independent minister (b. 1779)
  • 28 November - Robert Roberts, preacher (b. 1762)