1784 in Wales

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Incumbents

30 March - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls.
7 May - Lady Henrietta Herbert, heiress of the Earl of Powis, marries Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive of Plassey.
14 May - Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, is created Baron Bulkeley.
19 May - Henry Bayly Paget, 9th Baron Paget, is created Earl of Uxbridge.
23-25 July - Hester Thrale marries Gabriele Piozzi, much to the displeasure of Dr Samuel Johnson.
28 July - Lloyd Kenyon is raised to a baronetcy.
Samuel Homfray and his brother quarrel with Anthony Bacon and take out a lease of one of the richest iron-ore deposits in the district (which develops into the Penydarren ironworks).

Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, including first publication of the harp air Dafydd y Garreg Wen

17 January – Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)
25 May – John Frost, Chartist leader (died 1877)
16 December - Mary Jones, purchaser of an early Welsh-language Bible (died 1864)
date unknown
- Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)
- Anthony Hill, ironmaster (died 1862)
- David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet (died 1841)^[1]

8 February - Christopher Bassett, Methodist exhorter, 30 (tuberculosis)^[2]
5 April – David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
date unknown
- John Hanbury III, ironmaster, 40?^[3]
- Stafford Prys, publisher, 52?

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