1804 in Wales

none September 2019 September 2019 1804 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1804 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry PagetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 24J.C. Sainty John Sainty (civil servant) List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd London 1979 Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 695Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru University of Wales Press 1992 169 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of BeaufortEdwin Poole The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions Edwin Poole 1886 378 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount BulkeleyEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 26 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan (until 19 January); http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/vaughan-john-1752-1804 VAUGHAN, John (c.1752-1804), of Golden Grove, Carm. History of Parliament Online 1 November 2017 George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor (from 21 April) Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of WestminsterOld Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders not known William Retlaw Williams "Old Wales" Office 1907 3 106 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute Nicholas Thomas Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales Genealogical Pub. Co Baltimore 1991 9780806313146 612 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th BaronetEdward Breese Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth 1873 29 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – vacant until 1804 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milfords-PHIL-PIC-1491 Philipps family, of Picton Bertie George Charles 1959 19 October 2021 Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley (until 1 December); George Rodney, 3rd Baron RodneyJonathan Williams The History of Radnorshire R. Mason 1859 115 Bishop of Bangor – William Cleaver Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 305 Fryde E. B. Handbook of British chronology New York Cambridge University Press Cambridge England 1996 9780521563505 292 Bishop of Llandaff – Richard WatsonJohn Henry James A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff Western Mail 1898 16 Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel HorsleyThe Apostolical Succession in the Church of England James Parkes and Company 1866 15 Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess Thomas Duffus Hardy Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press 1854 307The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged Porter 1780 95The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3 George III (King of Great Britain) University Press 1967 434Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA3174&pos=1 The Royal Society 30 October 2020 Events February 21 - The Cornishman Richard Trevithick's newly built "Penydarren" steam locomotive operates on the Merthyr Tramroad between the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil and Abercynon, following several trials since February 13, the world's first locomotive to work on rails.Rattenbury Gordon Lewis, M. J. T. Merthyr Tydfil Tramroads and their Locomotives 2004 Railway and Canal Historical Society Oxford 0-901461-52-0 As a result of this achievement, Samuel Homfray wins a 1000 guineas wager with Richard Crawshay as to which of them could first build a steam locomotive for use in their works. March 7 - Inauguration of the British and Foreign Bible Society, largely at the instigation of Thomas Charles.http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/about-bible-society/history/our-timeline/ Our timeline Bible Society 2010-11-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20101228224810/http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/about-bible-society/history/our-timeline/ 28 December 2010 dead The Cambrian is the first newspaper published in Wales. Arts and literature New books Edward Davies - Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions and Languages of the Ancient Britons Richard Llwyd Gayton Wake, or Mary Dod Poems, Tales, Odes, Sonnets, Translations from the British Benjamin Heath Malkin - The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography of South Wales Azariah Shadrach - Drws i'r Meddwl Segur Hester Thrale - British Synonymy: or an attempt at regulating the choice of words in familiar conversation Music Edward Jones - The Lyric Airs Births 14 January - Sir Hugh Owen, educationist (died 1881)Owen, Hugh (1804-1881) 20 January - John Jones (Idrisyn), clergyman and author (died 1887) 2 March - Henry Davies, journalist (died 1890) 5 March - John Davies (Siôn Gymro), minister and linguist (died 1884) 31 March - Rice Rees, clergyman and historian (died 1839)s-REES-RIC-1804 REES, RICE (1804–1839), cleric and scholar Jones Selwyn 26 April 2008 12 April (in Indiana) - George Wallace Jones, US senator and son of Welsh lawyer John Rice Jones (died 1896)http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000221 JONES, George Wallace, (1804 - 1896) Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 10 April 2019 date unknown - Benjamin Price, first bishop of the "Free Church of England" (died 1896) Deaths 19 January - John Vaughan, politician, about 51 19 March - Philip Yorke, politician and antiquary, 60http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/yorke-philip-1743-1804 Yorke, Philip (1743-1804), of Erthig, Denb. History of Parliament online 6 February 2019 7 February 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20190207015023/http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/yorke-philip-1743-1804 dead 17 May - Mary Penry, Moravian settler in Pennsylvania, 68Scott Paul Gordon, "Glad Passivity: Mary Penry of Lititz and the Making of Moravian Women" Journal of Moravian History 13(1)(March 2013): 1-26. 20 September - Josiah Rees, Unitarian minister, 59s-REES-JOS-1744 Rees, Josiah (1744-1804), Unitarian minister Robert Thomas Jenkins 10 April 2019 1 December - Thomas Harley, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire, 74 7 December - Morgan John Rhys, Baptist minister, 43Rhees, Morgan John 48 See also 1804 in Ireland References Wales Category:1800s in Wales