1805 in Wales

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

Incumbents

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

Events

• Alban Thomas Jones-Gwynne builds the town of Aberaeron.
• 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.^[1]
• 26 November - The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened, the tallest and longest in Britain, completing the canal's Llangollen branch.^[2]

Arts and literature

New books

• 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

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

Visual arts

• 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

• 13 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

References

1. "Trafalgar ancestors". The National Archives (United Kingdom). Retrieved 2014-08-28.
2. Rolt, L. T. C. (1958). Thomas Telford. London: Longmans, Green.