Английская Википедия:1798 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 1798 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 – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
• 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

• March - Historian William Richards returns from Wales to King's Lynn.
• 31 March - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire;
• June/August - Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is climbed by Peter Bailey Williams and William Bingley, botanists looking for alpine plants on Snowdon.
• 13 July - William Wordsworth, visiting Wales, writes "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour".
• 17 October - First recorded use of the word "tramroad", in the minutes of the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company.
• unknown dates
  • The Gwyneddigion Society launches its project of publishing ancient Welsh manuscripts.
  • William Lort Mansel becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
  • William Madocks buys the Tan-yr-Allt estate on Traeth Mawr.
  • Morgan John Rhys buys a tract of land in the Allegheny mountains of North America for the purpose of founding a Welsh colony, which he names Cambria.

Arts and literature

New books

• Emily Clark - Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon
• Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol - Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder
• Hester Thrale - Three Warnings to John Bull before he dies. By an Old Acquaintance of the Public
• Richard Warner - Second Walk Through Wales

Music

• Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - Popular Cheshire Melodies

Births

• 3 August - Llewelyn Lewellin, first principal of St David's College, Lampeter (died 1878)
• 16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (died 1882)
• date unknown - John Jones Archdeacon of Bangor (died 1863)

Deaths

• 21 June - Edward Evan, poet, 81
• 6 July - Joshua Evans, Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66
• 17 November - George Cadogan Morgan, dissenting minister and scientist, 44
• 23 November - David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg), naval surgeon and poet, 47
• 16 December - Thomas Pennant, naturalist and travel writer, 72