1793 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1793 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- Construction of Clydach Ironworks begins.
- A clipper, the Pennsylvania, is wrecked on The Smalls with the loss of 75 lives.
- A group of Quakers from Nantucket Island settle at Milford Haven, where they attempt to set up a whaling industry.
- Y Cylchgrawn Cymraeg is the first political journal to be published in the Welsh language.
Arts and literature
New books
- Edward Daniel Clarke - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791
Births
- 17 January - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866)
- 8 February - Daniel Rees, clergyman and hymn-writer (d. 1857)
- March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist (date of death unknown)
- 19 July - John Propert, physician (d. 1867)
- 10 August - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848)
- 25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835)
Deaths
- January - Marged ferch Ifan, harpist, 96
- 5 January - Elizabeth Griffith, actress and writer, 73?
- 14 March - Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, 57
- 22 May - John Lloyd, antiquary, 60[1]
References
- ↑ Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "LLOYD, JOHN (1733–1793)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2008.
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