1801 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1780s; 1790s; 1800s; 1810s; 1820s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1801 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1801 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Opening of Chirk aqueduct.
First railway in north Wales is built by Lord Penrhyn to link his quarries with Bethesda and Port Penrhyn.
John Rice Jones becomes first attorney-general of Indiana.[1]

Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion
The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, vol. 1[2]
Azariah Shadrach - Allwedd Myfyrdod[3]
Hester Thrale - Retrospection: or a review of the most striking events, characters, situations, and their consequences, which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the view of mankind

6 February - William Williams (Caledfryn), poet and critic (d. 1869)[4]
24 May(probable) - Elizabeth Randles, harpist and pianist (d. 1829)
1 November - John Lloyd Davies, politician (d. 1860)
18 November - David Rees, minister and writer (d. 1869)
23 December - William Watkin Edward Wynne, politician (d. 1880)
date unknown - Thomas Phillips, lawyer, politician and businessman, mayor of Newport (d.1867)

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Jones, W.A. Burt (1889). John Rice Jones: a brief sketch of the life and public career of the first practicing lawyer in Illinois. Chicago, Illinois: Fergus Printing Company. Fergus' Historical Series #82.
Neil Evans (17 February 2016). Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950. Routledge. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-134-78661-9.
Welsh Bibliographical Society (July 1943). The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society. Welsh Bibliographical Society. p. 70.
Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index. Herald Office. p. 257.
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1868. p. 902.

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