1801 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1801 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events
- 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]
Arts and literature
New books
- 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
Music
Births
- 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)
Deaths
- 16 January - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 45[5]
- 14 February - Rice Jones, antiquary, 87
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References
- 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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