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

• Richard Phillips builds Clyne Castle
  Clyne Castle
  Clyne Castle is a grade II listed building situated on a hill overlooking Swansea Bay, adjacent to the Clyne valley, near Blackpill, Swansea.It was originally built in 1791 by Richard Phillips, a wealthy Carmarthenshire landowner. The Castle was subsequently remodelled by later owners...
  
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• Peter Williams is excommunicated by the Methodists for publishing Sabellian heresy.
• Thomas Jones
  Thomas Jones (artist)
  Thomas Jones was a British landscape painter. He was a pupil of Richard Wilson and was best known in his lifetime as a painter of Welsh and Italian landscapes in the style of his master. However, Jones's reputation grew in the 20th century when more unconventional works by him, ones not been...
  
   becomes High Sheriff of Radnorshire
  High Sheriff of Radnorshire
  - History :The office of High Sheriff is over 1000 years old, with its establishment before the Norman Conquest. The Office of High Sheriff remained first in precedence in the counties until the reign of Edward VII when an Order in Council in 1908 gave the Lord-Lieutenant the prime office under the...
  
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• June - William Jones
  William Jones (Welsh radical)
  William Jones was a Welsh antiquary, poet, scholar and radical. Jones was an ardent supporter of both the American and French Revolutions, and through his strong support of the Jacobin cause he became known as 'the rural Voltaire' or 'Welsh Voltaire'...
  
   distributed copies of an address at the Llanrwst
  Llanrwst
  Llanrwst is a small town and community on the A470 road and the River Conwy in Conwy County Borough, Wales. It takes its name from the 5th century to 6th century Saint Grwst, and the original parish church in Cae Llan was replaced by the 12th-century church....
  
   eisteddfod, titled To all Indigenous Cambro-Britons, calling on poor Welsh farmers to set up a colony in the United States.

New books

• Joshua Thomas - New translation of the Baptist "Confession of Faith" issued by the London Assembly of 1689
• John Williams - An enquiry into the truth of the tradition concerning the discovery of America by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the year 1170
• Peter Williams Llythyr at Hen Gydymaith

Births

• date unknown - Robert Everett, Independent minister and writer (d. 1875)

Deaths

• 11 January - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet and hymn-writer, 73
• 13 February - William Parry
  William Parry (artist)
  William Parry ARA was a Welsh artist. Primarily a portrait painter, he was unique for attracting extensive patronage in Wales, due to his connections with Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet....
  
  , artist, 48
• 19 April - 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...
  
  , philosopher, 68
• 17 September - David Morris (hymn writer), 47