1780s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1780 - 1789 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
New books
1780
- John Walters - Poems with Notes
1781
- Thomas Pennant - Tours in Wales, volume 2
1782
- Thomas Pennant - Journey to Snowdon, volume 1
1783
- Julia Ann Hatton - Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects
1784
- Richard Price - Importance of the American Revolution
1785
- Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth
1786
- David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
- Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life
1788
- Hester Lynch Piozzi - Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson
1789
- Richard Price - Love for our Country
Music
1781
- John Parry (harpist) - British Harmony, being a Collection of Antient Welsh Airs
1783
- Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion o Fawl i'r Oen
1784
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards
1787
- Nathaniel Williams - Ychydig o Hymnau Newyddion
Births
- 1780
- February 10 - James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor (died 1862)
- May 14 - Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician (died 1855)
- October 7 - Wyndham Lewis, MP (died 1838)
- 1781
- 1782
- January 20 - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)
- December 29 - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857)
- 1783
- May - Cadwaladr Jones, minister and literary editor (died 1867)
- 1784
- January 17 - Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)
- date unknown - Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)
- 1785
- December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848)
- December 24 - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845)
- date unknown - William Owen, historian (died 1864)
- 1786
- 1787
- October 2 - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), historian (died 1848)
- 1788
- February 12 - William Williams, MP (died 1865)
- October 3 - John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860)
- 1789
- April 22 - Richard Roberts, engineer (died 1864)
- May 24 - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (died 1860)
Deaths
- 1780
- March 6 - Sir John Meredith, lawyer, 65
- April 1 - Sir Stephen Glynne, 7th Baronet, 35
- date unknown - Richard Thomas, genealogist, 46
- 1781
- April 4 - Henry Thrale, brewer
- October 12 - David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân), Franciscan friar and author
- 1782
- May 15 - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54
- November - John Parry, harpist
- 1783
- August 7 - Thomas Llewellyn, Baptist minister and writer, 63?
- September 6 - Anna Williams, friend of Dr Johnson, 77?
- 1784
- April 5 - David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
- 1785
- February 2 - John Guest, industrialist, 63
- October 20 - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?
- 1789
- July 24 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician, 39
- August 7 - William Edwards, minister and bridge-builder, 70
- November 26 - Elizabeth Baker, diarist, 70?