1800s in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1800–1809 to Wales and its people.

Events

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.

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)
- 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)