1800s in Wales

none December 2025 1790s | 1810s | Other years in Wales Other events of the decade 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.https://royalangleseyyc.org.uk/history/ The History of RAYC Royal Anglesey Yacht Club 4 December 2025 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)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Eben-Fardd Eben Fardd Encyclopædia Britannica 4 December 2025 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) References