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- April
- July/August – Iolo Morganwg travels to North Wales to collect material for the Myvyrian Archaiology.[20]
- October – Anthony Bushby Bacon and his brother Thomas take over the Hirwaun ironworks. Thomas sells his interest in the Plymouth ironworks to the Hill family.
- 16 October – Evan Pritchard (Ieuan Lleyn), David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri) and Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris) are "ordained" bards of the province of Gwynedd by Iolo Morganwg.
- 25 December – HMS Ethalion is wrecked off the Penmarks.
- unknown dates
- Following the failure of the Pembrokeshire fish harvest, Richard Fenton imports grain from the Mediterranean to relieve the plight of local people.
- Peter Price becomes manager of Neath ironworks,[21] and brings his family, including his wife Anna and his son Joseph Tregelles Price.
- Japanner John Pyrke relocates to Usk from London.[22]
- Ann Hatton and her husband take a lease on Swansea Bathing House.
- John Sevier, governor of Tennessee, writes of the alleged discovery of six skeletons in brass armour bearing the Welsh coat-of-arms.
- Baptist leader and colonist Morgan John Rhys moves to Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
- The Llandovery Bank is established, as W & D Jones & Co. Commonly known as the "Black Ox Bank" or "Banc yr Eidon", it is one of the earliest banks established in Carmarthenshire.[23]
- Robert Nicholl Carne begins construction of Dimlands, near Llantwit Major.[24]
- 1 March – Thomas Olivers, Methodist preacher and hymn-writer, 73[32]
- May – John Evans, explorer, 29[33]
- 15 July – John Breynton, clergyman, 80[34]
- 3 September – William Thomas, academic and Chancellor of Llandaff Cathedral, 65[35]
- 4 November – Josiah Tucker, economist, 87[36]
- 14 December – Benjamin Francis, hymn-writer, 55[37]
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Edwin Poole (1886). 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. p. 378.
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
"not known". Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders. 3. "Old Wales" Office: 106. 1907.
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146. Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
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Edward MacDermot; Oswald Stevens Nock; C. R. Clinker (1964). History of the Great Western Railway. I. Allan. p. 55.
Studies in Philology. University of North Carolina Press. 1927. p. 107.
Jenkins, Geraint (2012). Bard of liberty: the political radicalism of Iolo Morganwg. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 144. ISBN 9780708325001. "Testimonial to the Rev John Davies". National Library of Wales. Wrexham and Denbighshire Advertiser and Cheshire Shropshire and North Wales Register. 1 May 1875. Retrieved 21 March 2020.