Английская Википедия:1795 in Wales

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Шаблон:Use Welsh English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1795 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton (until 2 April)
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
• Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot
• Bishop of St Davids – William Stuart

Events

• 8 April - George, Prince of Wales, marries his first cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick.
• June - Cecilia Thrale, youngest daughter of Hester Thrale, elopes with John Meredith Mostyn, a member of the prominent Anglesey family.
• July - Ezekiel Hughes, Edward Bebb and others leave Llanbryn-mair on foot, bound for Philadelphia.
• September - Hester Thrale and her second husband, Gabriele Piozzi, settle in Wales, where they begin renovating Bachygraig.
• date unknown
  • Samuel Homfray brings an unsuccessful suit, at Hereford Assizes, of the commoners against the Dowlais Company.
  • The events of the French Revolution cause corn prices to rise dramatically, but wages do not follow. Food riots are commonplace across Wales for the several years after.
  • The Universal British Directory includes the first-ever entry for Merthyr Tydfil.
  • Copper bolts forged at Parys Mountain are used in the construction of an American warship, the USS Constitution.

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa Gymysgedig
• John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Seren Tan Gwmmwl

Births

• 18 January - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, politician (died 1884)
• 5 August - George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician (died 1869)
• December - John Davies, philosopher (died 1861)
• 7 December - Samuel George Homfray, industrialist (died 1882)
• 11 December - Thomas Taylor Griffith, surgeon (died 1876)
• date unknown - Zephaniah Williams, Chartist (died 1874)
• probable - Maria Jane Williams, musician (d. 1873)

Deaths

• 25 January - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72
• 2 April – Richard Myddelton, Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire, 69
• 11 March - William Mostyn Owen, landowner and politician, 72/3
• May - David Ellis, clergyman and poet, 58
• 20 August - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical, 71
• 14 October - Henry Owen, theologian, 79