1798 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1798 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events
- March - Historian William Richards returns from Wales to King's Lynn.
- 31 March - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire;[1]
- 13 July - William Wordsworth, visiting Wales, writes "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour".
- First recorded use of the word "tramroad", in the minutes of the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company.
- "Great Debate" held at Ramoth Chapel in Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, as a result of which John Richard Jones forms the "Scottish Baptist" connexion.
- The Gwyneddigion Society launches its project of publishing ancient Welsh manuscripts.
- William Lort Mansel becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
- William Madocks buys the Tan-yr-Allt estate on Traeth Mawr.
- Morgan John Rhys buys a tract of land in the Allegheny mountains of North America for the purpose of founding a Welsh colony, which he names Cambria.
- Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is climbed by Peter Bailey Williams and William Bingley, botanists looking for alpine plants on Snowdon.
Arts and literature
New books
- Emily Clark - Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon
- Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol - Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder
- Hester Thrale - Three Warnings to John Bull before he dies. By an Old Acquaintance of the Public
Music
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - Popular Cheshire Melodies
Births
- 3 August - Llewelyn Lewellin, first principal of St David's College, Lampeter (died 1878)
- 16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (died 1882)
Deaths
- 21 June - Edward Evans, poet, 81
- 6 July - Joshua Evans, Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66
- 23 November - David Samwell, naval surgeon and poet, 47
- 16 December - Thomas Pennant, naturalist and travel writer, 72
References
- ↑ The London Gazette: no. 15002. p. 263. 27 March 1798.
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