• Source: 1780s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1780–1789 to Wales and its people.




Events


1780
1781
1782
1783
1784
1785
1786
1787
1788
1789




Arts and literature






= New books

=
1780

John Walters - Poems with Notes
1781

Thomas Pennant - Tours in Wales, volume 2
1782

Thomas Pennant - Journey to Snowdon, volume 1
1783

Julia Ann Hatton - Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects
1784

Richard Price - Importance of the American Revolution
1785

Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth
1786

David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life
1788

Hester Lynch Piozzi - Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson
1789

Richard Price - 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) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards
1787

Nathaniel Williams - Ychydig o Hymnau Newyddion




Births


1780
10 February - James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor (died 1862)
14 May - Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician (died 1855)
7 October - Wyndham Lewis, MP (died 1838)
1781
1782
20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)
29 December - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857)
1783
May - Cadwaladr Jones, minister and literary editor (died 1867)
1784
17 January - Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)
date unknown - Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)
1785
December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848)
24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845)
date unknown - William Owen, historian (died 1864)
1786
1787
2 October - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), historian (died 1848)
1788
12 February - William Williams, MP (died 1865)
3 October - John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860)
1789
22 April - Richard Roberts, engineer (died 1864)
24 May - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (died 1860)




Deaths


1780
6 March - Sir John Meredith, lawyer, 65
1 April - Sir Stephen Glynne, 7th Baronet, 35
date unknown - Richard Thomas, priest and antiquarian, 46
1781
4 April - Henry Thrale, brewer
12 October - David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân), Franciscan friar and author
1782
15 May - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54
November - John Parry, harpist
1783
7 August - Thomas Llewellyn, Baptist minister and writer, 63?
6 September - Anna Williams, friend of Dr Johnson, 77?
1784
5 April - David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
1785
2 February - John Guest, industrialist, 63
20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?
1789
24 July - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician, 39
7 August - William Edwards, minister and bridge-builder, 70
26 November - Elizabeth Baker, diarist, 70?

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