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...
  
   - Caroline of Brunswick
  Caroline of Brunswick
  Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was the Queen consort of King George IV of the United Kingdom from 29 January 1820 until her death...
  
  

Events

• February - John Bryan begins preaching.
• 5 May - Missionary John Davies sets out for Tahiti
  Tahiti
  Tahiti is the largest island in the Windward group of French Polynesia, located in the archipelago of the Society Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is the economic, cultural and political centre of French Polynesia. The island was formed from volcanic activity and is high and mountainous...
  
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• August - Owen Davies
  Owen Davies
  Owen Davies is a reader in Social History at the University of Hertfordshire. His main field of research is on the history of modern and contemporary witchcraft and magic....
  
   and John Hughes arrive in Ruthin
  Ruthin
  Ruthin is a community and the county town of Denbighshire in north Wales. Located around a hill in the southern part of the Vale of Clwyd - the older part of the town, the castle and Saint Peter's Square are located on top of the hill, while many newer parts of the town are on the floodplain of...
  
   to superintend the Wesleyan Methodist mission to Wales.
• Opening of Brecon Canal between Brecon
  Brecon
  Brecon is a long-established market town and community in southern Powys, Mid Wales, with a population of 7,901. It was the county town of the historic county of Brecknockshire; although its role as such was eclipsed with the formation of Powys, it remains an important local centre...
  
   and Talybont.
• John Rice Jones
  John Rice Jones
  John Rice Jones was an American politician, jurist, and pioneer.-Early history:Jones was born in Mallwyd, Wales, the eldest of fourteen children to John Jones, an excise officer. According to family tradition Jones was educated in Oxford, but this is unconfirmed...
  
   becomes first attorney-general of Indiana
  Indiana
  Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
  
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• Richard Fothergill
  Richard Fothergill
  Richard Fothergill was an English ironmaster and coal-owner in Wales and a Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1868 to 1880....
  
   goes into partnership with Samuel Homfray
  Samuel Homfray
  Samuel Homfray was an English industrialist during the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain, associated with the early iron industry in South Wales....
  
   at Tredegar
  Tredegar
  Tredegar is a town situated on the Sirhowy River in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, in south-east Wales. Located within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, it became an early centre of the Industrial Revolution in South Wales...
  
  . Jeremiah Homfray begins leasing mineral lands at Abernant, Cwmbach, and Rhigos.
• Edward Charles becomes official "bard" of the Gwyneddigion Society
  Gwyneddigion Society
  The Gwyneddigion Society is a literary and cultural society founded in London, England by Welsh scholars to further and preserve knowledge of their home country.-History:...
  
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• Thomas Charles
  Thomas Charles
  Thomas Charles was a Welsh Nonconformist clergyman of considerable importance in the history of modern Wales.-Early life:...
  
   introduces the practice of allowing Calvinistic Methodist congregations to elect their own elders.
• Richard Ellis succeeds his father, Lewis Ellis, as organist of Beaumaris Church.
• William Jones establishes a grammar school
  Grammar school
  A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
  
   at Wrexham
  Wrexham
  Wrexham is a town in Wales. It is the administrative centre of the wider Wrexham County Borough, and the largest town in North Wales, located in the east of the region. It is situated between the Welsh mountains and the lower Dee Valley close to the border with Cheshire, England...
  
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• John Kenrick III develops his great-uncle's chandlery at Wrexham into a bank.
• 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...
  
   joins the Bengal European Regiment in India
  India
  India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
  
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New books

• William Bingley - Tour round North Wales
• John Evans - A Tour through part of North Wales in … 1798 and at other times
• John Jones
  John Jones (Unitarian)
  John Jones LL.D. was a Welsh Unitarian minister, critic, tutor and lexicographer.-Life:He was born about 1766 near Llandovery, in the parish of Llandingat, Carmarthenshire. His father was a farmer...
  
   - A Development of … Events calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its … Purity
• Thomas Jones - A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants
• Richard Llwyd
  Richard Llwyd
  Richard Llwyd, also known as The Bard of Snowdon , was a Welsh author, poet and expert on Welsh heraldry and genealogy. His most notable work is the poem Beaumaris Bay, which was published in 1800.-Life history:...
  
   - Beaumaris Bay
• William Ouseley
  William Ouseley
  Sir William Ouseley , was a British Orientalist.-Early life:Ouseley was born in Monmouthshire, the eldest son of Captain Ralph Ouseley and his wife Elizabeth . He was tutored at home in the company of his brother, Gore and his cousin, Gideon Ouseley. All three had notable careers...
  
   - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia
• Richard Warner - Second Walk Through Wales
• Henry Wigstead
  Henry Wigstead
  Henry Wigstead was an English Magistrate amateur painter & caricaturist.He was a close personal friend of Thomas Rowlandson, whom he accompanied on sketching trips to the Isle of Wight , Brighton and Wales which resulted in subsequent publications for which Rowlandson provided the...
  
   - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797

Births

• 6 March - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)
• 20 June - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)
• 1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
• 29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd)
  David Griffith (Clwydfardd)
  David Griffith , known by the bardic name of "Clwydfardd" was a Welsh poet and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.-Early life:...
  
  , poet and archdruid (d. 1894)
• date unknown - James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)

Deaths

• 5 January - William Jones of Neyland
  William Jones (ecclesiastic)
  William Jones , known as William Jones of Nayland, was a British clergyman and author.-Life:He was born at Lowick, Northamptonshire, but was descended from an old Welsh family. One of his ancestors was Colonel John Jones, brother-in-law of Oliver Cromwell. He was educated at Charterhouse School...
  
  , clergyman and author, 73
• 14 March - Daines Barrington
  Daines Barrington
  Daines Barrington, FRS was an English lawyer, antiquary and naturalist.Barrington was the fourth son of the first Viscount Barrington. He was educated for the profession of the law, and after filling various posts, was appointed a Welsh judge in 1757 and afterwards second justice of Chester...
  
  , antiquary and naturalist, 72
• May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author