1799 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1799 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• October - Anthony Bushby Bacon and his brother Thomas take over the Hirwaun ironworks. Thomas sells his interest in the Plymouth ironworks to the Hill family.
• 16 October - Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri) and Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris) are "ordained" bards of the province of Gwynedd by Iolo Morganwg.
• 25 December - HMS Ethalion is wrecked off the Penmarks.
• Following the failure of the Pembrokeshire fish harvest, Richard Fenton imports grain from the Mediterranean to relieve the plight of local people.
• Peter Price becomes manager of Neath ironworks, and brings his family, including his wife Anna and his son Joseph Tregelles Price.
• Japanner John Pyrke relocates to Usk from London.
• Ann Hatton and her husband take a lease on Swansea Bathing House.
• Iolo Morganwg travels to North Wales to collect material for the Myvyrian Archaiology.
• Launch of the quarterly periodical Trysorfa Ysprydol by Thomas Charles.
• John Sevier, governor of Tennessee, writes of the alleged discovery of six skeletons in brass armour bearing the Welsh coat-of-arms.
• Baptist leader and colonist Morgan John Rhys moves to Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
• The Llandovery Bank is established. Commonly known as the "Black Ox Bank" or "Banc yr Eidon", it is one of the earliest banks established in Carmarthenshire.
• The 11 miles (18 km) Crumlin Arm of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal is opened. It leaves the main line at Crindau, rising 358 feet (109m) through 32 locks to Crumlin (including the Cefn flight of Fourteen Locks).^[1]
• Robert Nicholl Carne begins construction of Dimlands, near Llantwit Major.^[2]

Arts and literature

New books

• Philip Yorke - The Royal Tribes of Wales

Births

• 30 June - David Williams, politician (d. 1869)
• 21 December - John Vaughan, ironmaster (d. 1868)

Deaths

• May - John Evans, explorer, 29
• 3 September - William Thomas, academic, 65
• 4 November - Josiah Tucker, economist, 87
• 14 December - Benjamin Francis, hymn-writer, 55

References

1. Priestley, Joseph (1831). Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways of Great Britain.
2. Archaeologia cambrensis (Public domain ed.). Cambrian Archaeological Association. 1856. p. 382. Retrieved 26 January 2012.