# 1800s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1800–1809 to Wales and its people.

## Events

* 1800
* 1801
* 1802
* 1803
* 1804
* 1805
* 1806
* 1807
* 1808
* 1809

## Arts and literature
### New books

* J. T. Barber - A Tour Throughout South Wales and Monmouthshire (1803)
* Thomas Charles - The Welsh Methodists Vindicated (1802)
* Edward Davies
** Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions and Languages of the Ancient Britons (1804)
** The Mythology and Rites of the British Druids (1809)
* Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn)
** Barddoniaeth (1803)
** Ieithiadur neu Ramadeg Cymraeg (1808)
* Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Bannau y Byd (1808)
* John Evans - A Tour through part of North Wales in ... 1798 and at other times (1800)
* John Jones - A Development of ... Events calculated to restore the Christian Religion to its ... Purity (1800)
* Thomas Jones - A Cardiganshire Landlord's Advice to his Tenants (1800)
* Richard Llwyd - Beaumaris Bay (1800)
* The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, vol. 1 (1801)
* William Ouseley - Epitome of the Ancient History of Persia (1800)
* William Owen Pughe - Geiriadur Cymraeg-Saesneg (1803)
* Abraham Rees - The New Cyclopaedia, vol. 1 (1802)
* Thomas Roberts of Llwynrhudol - Amddiffyniad i'r Methodistiaid (1806)
* Azariah Shadrach - Allwedd Myfyrdod (1801)
* Charles Symmons - Life of Milton (1806)
* Richard Warner - Second Walk Through Wales (1800)
* Henry Wigstead - Remarks on a Tour to North and South Wales: In the Year 1797 (1800)

### Music

* 1802
** Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, vol. 2
* 1806
** Casgliad o Hymnau gan mwyaf heb erioed eu hargraffu o'r blaen (collection of hymns)
* 1807
** Anthem y Saint... gan Evan Dafydd (collection of hymns)

## Sport

* 1802 - Royal Anglesey Yacht Club founded at Beaumaris.

## Births

* 1800
** 6 March - Samuel Roberts (S.R.), Radical leader (d. 1885)
** 20 June - Edward Douglas-Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (d. 1886)
** 1 October - Williams Evans, hymnist (d. 1880)
** 29 November - David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet and archdruid (d. 1894)
** date unknown - James James (Iago Emlyn), minister and poet (d. 1879)
* 1801
** 6 February - William Williams (Caledfryn), poet and critic (d. 1869)
** 18 November - David Rees, minister and writer (d. 1869)
* 1802
** August - Ebenezer Thomas, poet (d. 1863)
** 24 August - William Rowlands (Gwilym Lleyn) (d. 1865)
** 8 November
*** Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover (d. 1867)
*** William Rees (Gwilym Hiraethog), poet and author (d. 1883)
** 4 December - Calvert Jones, pioneer photographer (d. 1877)
** 12 December
*** John Ryland Harris, printer (d. 1823)
*** Isaac Williams, poet (d. 1865)
** date unknown - Thomas Robert Jones, founder of the True Ivorites (d. 1856)
* 1803
** 10 May - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, owner of Margam Castle (d. 1890)
** 17 October - Samuel Holland, industrialist (d. 1892)
** date unknown - Owain Meirion, balladeer (d. 1868)
* 1806
** 1 February - Jane Williams (Ysgafell), writer (d. 1885)
** 21 April - Sir George Cornewall Lewis, statesman (d. 1863)
* 1807
** date unknown - Sir William Milbourne James (judge) (d. 1881)
* 1808
** date unknown - Sir John Henry Scourfield, author (d. 1876)
* 1809
** 18 January - John Gwyn Jeffreys, conchologist (d. 1885)
** 17 April - Thomas Brigstocke, painter (d. 1881)
** 24 May - William Chambers, politician (d. 1882)
** 26 May - G. T. Clark, engineer (d. 1885)
** 11 August - Robert Thomas (Ap Vychan), writer (d. 1880)
** date unknown - Evan James, lyricist of the Welsh national anthem

## Deaths

* 1800
** 14 March - Daines Barrington, antiquary and naturalist (b. 1727)
** May - Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr), clergyman and author
* 1802
** 28 November - Robert Roberts, preacher (b. 1762)
** 30 November - Thomas Williams of Llanidan (b. 1737)
** 31 December - Francis Lewis, signatory of the Declaration of American Independence (b. 1713)
** date unknown - Joseph Hoare, academic (b. 1709)
* 1804
** 20 September - Josiah Rees, Unitarian minister (b. 1744)
** 7 December - Morgan John Rhys, Baptist minister (b. 1760)
* 1805
** August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer (b. 1776)
* 1807
** 18 July - Thomas Jones, mathematician (b. 1756)
* 1808
** 21 January - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (b. 1737)
* 1809
** April - Charles Francis Greville, founder of Milford Haven (b. 1749)
** 28 October - Hugh Pugh, Independent minister (b. 1779)
** 28 November - Robert Roberts, preacher (b. 1762)