1805 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1805 to Wales and its people.
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Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events
- Alban Thomas Jones-Gwynne builds the town of Aberaeron.[1]
- 21 October - Battle of Trafalgar: A British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. About 465 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Wales.[2]
- 26 November - The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened, the tallest and longest in Britain, completing the canal's Llangollen branch.[3]
Arts and literature
New books
- Thomas Charles - Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol
- Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 1
- Titus Lewis - A Welsh — English Dictionary, Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg
- Robert Southey - Madoc
Music
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) takes up residence in St James's Palace.
Visual arts
- English watercolour landscape painter David Cox makes his first tour in Wales.
Births
- 13 December - Robert Griffiths, inventor (died 1883)
- 19 December - John David Edwards, hymn-writer (died 1885)[4]
- date unknown
- Evan Davies, missionary (died 1864)<
- Hugh Hughes (Tegai), writer (died 1864)[5]
- John William Thomas, mathematician (died 1840)
Deaths
- 15 April - Mary Morgan, servant, 16 (executed by hanging, for killing her newborn child)[6]
- August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer, 29[7]
- 25 November - Jonathan Hughes, poet, 84
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References
- Thomas Lloyd; Julian Orbach; Robert Scourfield (2006). Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. Yale University Press. p. 391. ISBN 0-300-10179-1.
- "Trafalgar ancestors". The National Archives (United Kingdom). Retrieved 28 August 2014.
- Rolt, L. T. C. (1958). Thomas Telford. London: Longmans, Green.
- Robert David Griffith. "Edwards, John David (1805-1885), cleric and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- David Tecwyn Evans. "Edwards, Hughes, Hugh (Tegai; 1805-1864), Independent minister and man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- George Hardinge (1818). The miscellaneous works, in prose and verse, of George Hardinge [ed. by J. Nichols]. p. 58.
- A. M. Allchin (1987). Ann Griffiths: The Furnace and the Fountain. University of Wales Press. p. ii. ISBN 978-0-7083-0954-4.
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