Incumbents

• Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
  
   - George, Prince Regent
  George IV of the United Kingdom
  George IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later...
  
  
• Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
  
   - vacant

Events

• 1780
  1780 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1780 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:*July 1 - Anthony Bacon acquires the lease of the Hirwaun ironworks....
  
  
• 1781
  1781 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1781 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  
• 1782
  1782 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1782 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:*March - Lloyd Kenyon is appointed Attorney-General....
  
  
• 1783
  1783 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1783 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:*August - Thomas Charles marries Sally Jones and settles in Bala....
  
  
• 1784
  1784 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1784 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:*March 30 - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls....
  
  
• 1785
  1785 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1785 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:*Sir Joshua Reynolds paints the Prince of Wales....
  
  
• 1786
  1786 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1786 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:*December 25 - Plymouth ironworks is leased to Richard Hill....
  
  
• 1787
  1787 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1787 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:*March - Hester Piozzi returns from Italy with her second husband....
  
  
• 1788
  1788 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1788 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  
• 1789
  1789 in Wales
  This article is about the particular significance of the year 1789 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:...
  
  

New books

• John Walters
  John Walters (poet)
  -Life:Walters was the eldest son of John Walters, a clergyman and lexicographer, and he was born on 11 June 1760 in Llandough, Glamorgan, south Wales. He was educated at Cowbridge Grammar School and Jesus College, Oxford, matriculating in 1777 obtaining his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1781. During...
  
   - Poems with Notes

• Thomas Pennant
  Thomas Pennant
  Thomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century...
  
   - Tours in Wales, volume 2

• Thomas Pennant
  Thomas Pennant
  Thomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century...
  
   - Journey to Snowdon, volume 1

• Julia Ann Hatton - Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects

• Richard Price
  Richard Price
  Richard Price was a British moral philosopher and preacher in the tradition of English Dissenters, and a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He fostered connections between a large number of people, including writers of the...
  
   - Importance of the American Revolution

• Nathaniel Williams
  Nathaniel Williams
  -Life:Nathaniel Williams was the son of Thomas Williams, from Swansea in south Wales. Nathaniel Williams studied at the University of Oxford, matriculating as a member of Jesus College in 1672 and obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1676. He wrote two books: A Pindaric Elegy on the famous...
  
   - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth

• David Samwell
  David Samwell
  David Samwell was a Welsh naval surgeon and poet. He was an important supporter of Welsh cultural organisations and was known by the pseudonym Dafydd Ddu Feddyg.-Personal history:...
  
   - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
• Hester Lynch Piozzi
  Hester Thrale
  Hester Lynch Thrale was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and 18th-century life.-Biography:Thrale was born at Bodvel Hall, Caernarvonshire, Wales...
  
   - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life

• Hester Lynch Piozzi
  Hester Thrale
  Hester Lynch Thrale was a British diarist, author, and patron of the arts. Her diaries and correspondence are an important source of information about Samuel Johnson and 18th-century life.-Biography:Thrale was born at Bodvel Hall, Caernarvonshire, Wales...
  
   - Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson

• Richard Price
  Richard Price
  Richard Price was a British moral philosopher and preacher in the tradition of English Dissenters, and a political pamphleteer, active in radical, republican, and liberal causes such as the American Revolution. He fostered connections between a large number of people, including writers of the...
  
   - Love for our Country

Music

• John Parry (harpist) - British Harmony, being a Collection of Antient Welsh Airs

• Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion o Fawl i'r Oen

• Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin)
  Edward Jones (harpist)
  Edward Jones was a Welsh harpist, bard, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music. He was commonly known by the bardic name of "Bardd y Brenin", which he took in 1820, when King George IV, his patron, came to the throne....
  
   - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards

• Nathaniel Williams
  Nathaniel Williams
  -Life:Nathaniel Williams was the son of Thomas Williams, from Swansea in south Wales. Nathaniel Williams studied at the University of Oxford, matriculating as a member of Jesus College in 1672 and obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1676. He wrote two books: A Pindaric Elegy on the famous...
  
   - Ychydig o Hymnau Newyddion

Births

• 1780
  • February 10 - James Henry Cotton
    James Henry Cotton
    James Henry Cotton was a clergyman and educationist who held the position of Dean of Bangor from 1838 until his death and was instrumental in the restoration of Bangor Cathedral....
    
    , Dean of Bangor (died 1862)
  • May 14 - Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician (died 1855)
  • October 7 - Wyndham Lewis
    Wyndham Lewis (politician)
    Wyndham Lewis was a British politician and a close associate of Benjamin Disraeli.Lewis was the son of Reverend Wyndham Lewis, of Tongwynlais, Glamorganshire. He sat as Member of Parliament for Cardiff from 1820 to 1826, for Aldeburgh from 1827 to 1829 and for Maidstone from 1835 to 1838.Lewis...
    
    , MP (died 1838)
• 1781
• 1782
  • January 20 - Sir William Nott
    William Nott
    Sir William Nott GCB was a British military leader in British India.- Early life :Nott was born in 1782, near Neath in Wales, the second son of Charles Nott, a Herefordshire farmer, who in 1794 became an innkeeper of the Ivy Bush Inn at Carmarthen in Wales...
    
    , military leader (died 1845)
  • December 29 - Sir William Lloyd
    William Lloyd (mountaineer)
    Sir William Lloyd was a Welsh military commander, and was one of the first Europeans to ascend a Himalayan peak....
    
    , soldier and mountaineer (died 1857)
• 1783
  • May - Cadwaladr Jones, minister and literary editor (died 1867)
• 1784
  • January 17 - Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)
  • date unknown - Walter Coffin
    Walter Coffin
    Walter Coffin was a Welsh coalowner and Member of Parliament. Coffin is recognised as the first person to exploit the rich coal fields of the Rhondda Valley on an industrial scale, pioneering the growth of one of the most wealthy coal mining areas in the world.-Early life:Born in 1784 he was the...
    
    , coal-owner (died 1867)
• 1785
  • December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848)
  • December 24 - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845)
  • date unknown - William Owen
    William Owen
    Sir William Francis Langer Owen, KBE, PC , Australian judge, was a Justice of the High Court of Australia....
    
    , historian (died 1864)
• 1786
• 1787
  • October 2 - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc)
    Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc)
    Reverend Thomas Price was a historian and a major Welsh literary figure of the early 19th century....
    
    , historian (died 1848)
• 1788
  • February 12 - William Williams, MP (died 1865)
  • October 3 - John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860)
• 1789
  • April 22 - Richard Roberts
    Richard Roberts (engineer)
    Richard Roberts was a British engineer whose development of high-precision machine tools contributed to the birth of production engineering and mass production.-Early life:...
    
    , engineer (died 1864)
  • May 24 - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (died 1860)

Deaths

• 1780
  • March 6 - Sir John Meredith, lawyer, 65
  • April 1 - Sir Stephen Glynne, 7th Baronet, 35
  • date unknown - Richard Thomas, genealogist, 46
• 1781
  • April 4 - Henry Thrale
    Henry Thrale
    Henry Thrale was an 18th century English Member of Parliament and a close friend of Samuel Johnson. Like his father, he was the proprietor of the large London brewery, H. Thrale & Co....
    
    , brewer
  • October 12 - David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân), Franciscan friar and author
• 1782
  • May 15 - Richard Wilson
    Richard Wilson (painter)
    Richard Wilson was a Welsh landscape painter, and one of the founder members of the Royal Academy in 1768. Wilson has been described as '...the most distinguished painter Wales has ever produced and the first to appreciate the aesthetic possibilities of his country.' He is considered to be the...
    
    , landscape painter, 54
  • November - John Parry, harpist
• 1783
  • August 7 - Thomas Llewellyn, Baptist minister and writer, 63?
  • September 6 - Anna Williams
    Anna Williams (poet)
    Anna Williams was a poet and companion of Samuel Johnson.-Early life:She was born at Rosemarket, Pembrokeshire to Zachariah Williams and his wife, Martha. Her father provided her with a wide artistic and scientific education, including Italian and French...
    
    , friend of Dr Johnson, 77?
• 1784
  • April 5 - David Williams
    David Williams (1709-1784)
    David Williams was an Independent minister and schoolmaster. His pupils included the philosopher David Williams, with whom he is sometimes confused....
    
    , minister and schoolmaster, 74?
• 1785
  • February 2 - John Guest
    John Josiah Guest
    Sir Josiah John Guest, 1st Baronet, known as John Josiah Guest, was a Welsh engineer and entrepreneur.-Life:Born in Dowlais, Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, as the son of Thomas Guest, a partner in the Dowlais Iron Company...
    
    , industrialist, 63
  • October 20 - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?
• 1789
  • July 24 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet
    Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet
    Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet was a Welsh politician and patron of the arts.Sir Watkin was the eldest son of the second marriage of his father, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, to Frances Shackerley of Cheshire...
    
    , politician, 39
  • August 7 - William Edwards
    William Edwards (architect)
    William Edwards was a Welsh Methodist minister who also practised as a stonemason, architect and bridge engineer....
    
    , minister and bridge-builder, 70
  • November 26 - Elizabeth Baker
    Elizabeth Baker
    Elizabeth Baker was an English playwright. She earned her living primarily as a typist, and was a spinster until the age of 39 when she married James Allaway, a widower, in June 1915. By then, she had already written several plays...
    
    , diarist, 70?