1805 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1805 to Wales and its people.
Incumbent[]
- Monarch - George III
Events[]
- Alban Thomas Jones-Gwynne builds the town of Aberaeron.[1]
- 21 October - Battle of Trafalgar: A British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. About 465 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Wales.[2]
- 26 November - The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened, the tallest and longest in Britain, completing the canal's Llangollen branch.[3]
Arts and literature[]
New books[]
- Thomas Charles - Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol[4]
- Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 1
- Titus Lewis - A Welsh — English Dictionary, Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg[5]
- Robert Southey - Madoc[6]
Music[]
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) takes up residence in St James's Palace.
Visual arts[]
- English watercolour landscape painter David Cox makes his first tour in Wales.
Births[]
- 13 December - , inventor (died 1883)
- 19 December - John David Edwards, hymn-writer (died 1885)[7]
- date unknown
- Evan Davies, missionary (died 1864)[8]
- Hugh Hughes (Tegai), writer (died 1864)[9]
- , mathematician (died 1840)
Deaths[]
- 15 April - Mary Morgan, servant, 16 (executed by hanging, for killing her newborn child)[10]
- August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer, 29[11]
- 25 November - Jonathan Hughes, poet, 84[12]
References[]
- ^ Thomas Lloyd; Julian Orbach; Robert Scourfield (2006). Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. Yale University Press. p. 391. ISBN 0-300-10179-1.
- ^ "Trafalgar ancestors". The National Archives (United Kingdom). Retrieved 28 August 2014.
- ^ Rolt, L. T. C. (1958). Thomas Telford. London: Longmans, Green.
- ^ Thomas CHARLES (1819). Geiriadur ysgrythawl. Geiriadur ysgrythyrol ... Yr ail argraffiad, etc. Robert Saunderson. p. 13.
- ^ Titus Lewis (1805). A Welsh-English dictionary. Geirlyfr Cymraeg a Saesneg, gan T. Lewis ac eraill. J. Evans, in Priory-Street.
- ^ Michael Gamer (17 February 2017). Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry. Cambridge University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-107-15885-6.
- ^ Robert David Griffith. "Edwards, John David (1805-1885), cleric and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). . Dictionary of National Biography. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 135.
- ^ David Tecwyn Evans. "Edwards, Hughes, Hugh (Tegai; 1805-1864), Independent minister and man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ^ George Hardinge (1818). The miscellaneous works, in prose and verse, of George Hardinge [ed. by J. Nichols]. p. 58.
- ^ A. M. Allchin (1987). Ann Griffiths: The Furnace and the Fountain. University of Wales Press. p. ii. ISBN 978-0-7083-0954-4.
- ^ Thomas Parry. "Hughes, Jonathan (1721-1805), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
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