1791 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1791 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- June - William Jones distributes copies of an address at the Llanrwst eisteddfod, titled To all Indigenous Cambro-Britons, calling on poor Welsh farmers to set up a colony in the United States.
- Richard Phillips builds Clyne Castle.
- Peter Williams is excommunicated by the Methodists for publishing Sabellian heresy.
- Probable date of completion of Methodist chapel at Earlswood, Monmouthshire.
- Thomas Jones becomes High Sheriff of Radnorshire.
Arts and literature
New books
- Joshua Thomas - New translation of the Baptist "Confession of Faith" issued by the London Assembly of 1689
- John Williams - An enquiry into the truth of the tradition concerning the discovery of America by Prince Madog ab Owen Gwynedd, about the year 1170
- Peter Williams Llythyr at Hen Gydymaith
Births
- date unknown - Robert Everett, Independent minister and writer (d. 1875)
Deaths
- 11 January - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet and hymn-writer, 73
- 13 February - William Parry, artist, 48
- 19 April - Richard Price, philosopher, 68
- 17 September - David Morris (hymn writer), 47
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