1783 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1783 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- August - Thomas Charles marries Sally Jones and settles in Bala.
- Industrialist and slave-owner Richard Pennant is created 1st Baron Penrhyn in the county of Lough.
- Welsh emigrant Evan Williams founds a whiskey distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, which will still be operating in the 21st century.
Arts and literature
New books
- Julia Ann Hatton - Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects
Music
- Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion o Fawl i'r Oen
Births
- May - Cadwaladr Jones, minister and literary editor (died 1867)
Deaths
- June 19 - Henry Lloyd, soldier and military writer
- August 7 - Thomas Llewellyn, Baptist minister and writer, 63?
- September 2 - Edward Edwards, academic
- September 6 - Anna Williams, friend of Dr Johnson, 77?
- December 16 - Sir William James, 1st Baronet, naval commander
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