1780s in Wales

none August 2026 1770s | 1790s | Other years in Wales Other events of the decade This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1780–1789 to Wales and its people. Events 1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1787 1788 1789 Arts and literature New books 1780 John Walters - Poems with Notes 1781 Thomas Pennant - Tours in Wales, volume 2 1782 Thomas Pennant - Journey to Snowdon, volume 1 1783 Julia Ann Hatton - Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects 1784 Richard Price - Importance of the American Revolution 1785 Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth 1786 David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life 1788 Hester Lynch Piozzi - Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson 1789 Richard Price - Love for our Country Music 1781 John Parry (harpist) - British Harmony, being a Collection of Antient Welsh Airs 1783 Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion o Fawl i'r Oen 1784 Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards 1787 Nathaniel Williams - Ychydig o Hymnau Newyddion Births 1780 10 February - James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor (died 1862) 14 May - Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician (died 1855) 7 October - Wyndham Lewis, MP (died 1838) 1781 1782 20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845) 29 December - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857) 1783 May - Cadwaladr Jones, minister and literary editor (died 1867) 1784 17 January - Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854) date unknown - Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867) 1785 December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848) 24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845) date unknown - William Owen, historian (died 1864) 1786 1787 2 October - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), historian (died 1848) 1788 12 February - William Williams, MP (died 1865) 3 October - John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860) 1789 22 April - Richard Roberts, engineer (died 1864) 24 May - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (died 1860) Deaths 1780 6 March - Sir John Meredith, lawyer, 65 1 April - Sir Stephen Glynne, 7th Baronet, 35 date unknown - Richard Thomas, priest and antiquarian, 46 1781 4 April - Henry Thrale, brewer 12 October - David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân), Franciscan friar and author 1782 15 May - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54 November - John Parry, harpist 1783 7 August - Thomas Llewellyn, Baptist minister and writer, 63? 6 September - Anna Williams, friend of Dr Johnson, 77? 1784 5 April - David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74? 1785 2 February - John Guest, industrialist, 63 20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77? 1789 24 July - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician, 39 7 August - William Edwards, minister and bridge-builder, 70 26 November - Elizabeth Baker, diarist, 70?https://biography.wales/article/s-BAKE-ELI-1720.html BAKER, ELIZABETH (c. 1720 - 1789), diarist Dictionary of Welsh Biography 3 August 2026 References Category:18th century in Wales Wales Wales Category:Decades in Wales