This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1780–1789 to Wales and its people.

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Events

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Arts and literature

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New books

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1780

1781

1782

1783

1784

1785

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

1789

Music

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1781

1783

  • Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion o Fawl i'r Oen

1784

1787

Births

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Deaths

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