1795 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1795 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - (from April) Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• 8 April - The Prince of Wales marries his first cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick.
• June - Cecilia Thrale, youngest daughter of Hester Thrale, elopes with John Meredith Mostyn, a member of the prominent Anglesey family.^[1]
• July - Ezekiel Hughes, Edward Bebb and others leave Llanbryn-mair on foot, bound for Philadelphia.
• September - Hester Thrale and her second husband, Gabriele Piozzi, settle in Wales, where they begin renovating Bachygraig.^[2]
• Samuel Homfray brings an unsuccessful suit, at Hereford Assizes, of the commoners against the Dowlais Company.^[3]
• The events of the French Revolution cause corn prices to rise dramatically, but wages do not follow. Food riots are commonplace across Wales for the several years after.
• The Universal British Directory includes the first-ever entry for Merthyr Tydfil.^[4]

Arts and literature

Births

• 13 January - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, politician (d. 1884)
• 5 August - George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician (d. 1869)
• December - John Davies, philosopher (d. 1861)
• 7 December - Samuel George Homfray, industrialist (d. 1882)
• 11 December - Thomas Taylor Griffith, surgeon (d. 1876)
• date unknown
  • Maria Jane Williams, musician (d. 1873)
  • Zephaniah Williams, Chartist (d. 1874)

Deaths

• 25 January - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72
• 20 August - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical 71
• 14 October - Henry Owen, theologian, 79
• date unknown - David Ellis, clergyman and poet, about 58

References