1801 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1780s; 1790s; 1800s; 1810s; 1820s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1801 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1801 to Wales and its people.

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Opening of Chirk aqueduct.
First railway in north Wales is built by Lord Penrhyn to link his quarries with Bethesda and Port Penrhyn.
John Rice Jones becomes first attorney-general of Indiana.^[1]
"Great Debate" held at Ramoth Chapel in Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, as a result of which John Richard Jones forms the "Scottish Baptist" connexion.^[2]

Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion
The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, vol. 1^[3]
Azariah Shadrach - Allwedd Myfyrdod^[4]
Hester Thrale - Retrospection: or a review of the most striking events, characters, situations, and their consequences, which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the view of mankind

6 February - William Williams (Caledfryn), poet and critic (d. 1869)^[5]
24 May(probable) - Elizabeth Randles, harpist and pianist (d. 1829)
1 November - John Lloyd Davies, politician (d. 1860)
18 November - David Rees, minister and writer (d. 1869)
23 December - William Watkin Edward Wynne, politician (d. 1880)
date unknown - Thomas Phillips, lawyer, politician and businessman, mayor of Newport (d.1867)

^ Jones, W.A. Burt (1889). John Rice Jones: a brief sketch of the life and public career of the first practicing lawyer in Illinois. Chicago, Illinois: Fergus Printing Company. Fergus' Historical Series #82.
^ unknown. "The McLeanist (Scotch) and Campbellite Baptists of Wales" (PDF). Biblical Studies.org.uk. Retrieved 30 August 2020. Note: Jones later dated his decision to 1798
^ Neil Evans (17 February 2016). Writing a Small Nation's Past: Wales in Comparative Perspective, 1850–1950. Routledge. p. 68. ISBN 978-1-134-78661-9.
^ Welsh Bibliographical Society (July 1943). The Journal of the Welsh Bibliographical Society. Welsh Bibliographical Society. p. 70.
^ Thomas Mardy Rees (1908). Notable Welshmen (1700-1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities. Also a Complete Alphabetical Index. Herald Office. p. 257.
^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1868. p. 902.
^ J. J. Caudle, Nowell, Thomas (1730?–1801), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.