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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1770 - 1779 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales*Princess of Wales - vacant-Events:*1770 in Wales*1771 in Wales*1772 in Wales*1773 in Wales...

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1790s in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1790 - 1799 to Wales and its people.-Incumbents:*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent*Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick -Events:*1790*1791*1792*1793*1794*1795...

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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1780 - 1789 to Wales
Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...

 and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...

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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

1780
  • 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

1781
  • 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

1782
  • 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

1783
  • Julia Ann Hatton - Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects

1784
  • 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

1785
  • 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

1786
  • 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

1788
  • 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

1789
  • 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

1781
  • John Parry (harpist) - British Harmony, being a Collection of Antient Welsh Airs

1783
  • Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion o Fawl i'r Oen

1784
  • 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

1787
  • 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?
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