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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1805 to Wales and its people.




Incumbents


Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan (until 19 January); George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor (from 21 April)
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney
Bishop of Bangor – William Cleaver
Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Horsley
Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess




Events


21 October - Battle of Trafalgar: A British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. About 465 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Wales.
26 November - The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened, the tallest and longest in Britain, completing the canal's Llangollen branch.
unknown dates
John Kenrick III develops his great-uncle's chandlery at Wrexham into a bank.
Alban Thomas Jones-Gwynne builds the town of Aberaeron.




Arts and literature






= New books

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Thomas Charles - Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol
Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 1
Titus Lewis - A Welsh — English Dictionary, Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg
Robert Southey - Madoc




= Music

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Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) takes up residence in St James's Palace.




= Visual arts

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English watercolour landscape painter David Cox makes his first tour in Wales.




Births


13 December - Robert Griffiths, inventor (died 1883)
19 December - John David Edwards, hymn-writer (died 1885)
date unknown
Evan Davies, missionary (died 1864)
Hugh Hughes (Tegai), writer (died 1864)
John William Thomas, mathematician (died 1840)




Deaths


15 April - Mary Morgan, servant, 16 (executed by hanging, for killing her newborn child)
August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer, 29
25 November - Jonathan Hughes, poet, 84




See also


1805 in Ireland




References

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